Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] mm: pagewalk: Take the pagetable lock in walk_pte_range()

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 02:43:08PM +0200, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Without the lock, anybody modifying a pte from within this function might
> have it concurrently modified by someone else.
> 
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov