Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] mm/memory-failure: convert process iterator to for_each_process_rculock
From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-07 11:05:20
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 04:13:30PM +0800, Ye Liu wrote:
From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn> Replace the manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs combined with for_each_process() loop in mm/memory-failure.c with for_each_process_rculock(), which scopes the RCU read lock to the loop body via scoped_guard(rcu). In collect_procs_file(), the page_pgoff() call now falls outside the RCU read-side critical section. This is safe because page_pgoff() only reads folio->index and does not traverse any RCU-protected structures. Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
LGTM so: Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- Changes in v2: - Rename *_rcu to *_rculock - Clarify page_pgoff() safety outside RCU lock (SJ Park) mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index a8b03e2920ba..7d93deb1f7b3 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c@@ -555,8 +555,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(const struct folio *folio, return; pgoff = page_pgoff(folio, page); - rcu_read_lock(); - for_each_process(tsk) { + for_each_process_rculock(tsk) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct anon_vma_chain *vmac; struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);@@ -572,7 +571,6 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(const struct folio *folio, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill, addr); } } - rcu_read_unlock(); anon_vma_unlock_read(av); }@@ -589,9 +587,8 @@ static void collect_procs_file(const struct folio *folio, pgoff_t pgoff; i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - rcu_read_lock(); pgoff = page_pgoff(folio, page); - for_each_process(tsk) { + for_each_process_rculock(tsk) { struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early); unsigned long addr;@@ -611,7 +608,6 @@ static void collect_procs_file(const struct folio *folio, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill, addr); } } - rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); }@@ -635,8 +631,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(const struct page *page, struct task_struct *tsk; i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - rcu_read_lock(); - for_each_process(tsk) { + for_each_process_rculock(tsk) { struct task_struct *t = tsk; /*@@ -653,7 +648,6 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(const struct page *page, add_to_kill_fsdax(t, page, vma, to_kill, pgoff); } } - rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } #endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */@@ -2288,8 +2282,7 @@ static void collect_procs_pfn(struct pfn_address_space *pfn_space, struct address_space *mapping = pfn_space->mapping; i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - rcu_read_lock(); - for_each_process(tsk) { + for_each_process_rculock(tsk) { struct task_struct *t = tsk; t = task_early_kill(tsk, true);@@ -2303,7 +2296,6 @@ static void collect_procs_pfn(struct pfn_address_space *pfn_space, add_to_kill_pgoff(t, vma, to_kill, pgoff); } } - rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } --2.25.1
-- Cheers, Lorenzo