Re: [Patch v2] mm: thp: grab the lock before manipulation defer list

[Michal Hocko]

On Sat 11-01-20 03:03:52, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:30:54PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
> > As all the other places, we grab the lock before manipulate the defer list.
> > Current implementation may face a race condition.
> > 
> > For example, the potential race would be:
> > 
> >     CPU1                      CPU2
> >     mem_cgroup_move_account   split_huge_page_to_list
> >       !list_empty
> >                                 lock
> >                                 !list_empty
> >                                 list_del
> >                                 unlock
> >       lock
> >       # !list_empty might not hold anymore
> >       list_del_init
> >       unlock
> 
> I don't think this particular race is possible. Both parties take page
> lock before messing with deferred queue, but anytway:
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I am confused, if the above race is not possible then what would be a
real race? We really do not want to have a patch with a misleading
changelog, do we?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs