Re: linux-5.13.2: warning from kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:359

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Thu Jul 22 2021 - 21:51:15 EST


On 2021/7/22 22:00, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 03:26:52PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 04:57:57PM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
>>>> Thanks for reviewing,
>>>>
>>>> What I have deduced from the dmesg is:
>>>> In function do_swap_page,
>>>> after invoking
>>>> 3385 si = get_swap_device(entry); /* rcu_read_lock */
>>>> and before
>>>> 3561 out:
>>>> 3562 if (si)
>>>> 3563 put_swap_device(si);
>>>> The thread got scheduled out in
>>>> 3454 locked = lock_page_or_retry(page, vma->vm_mm, vmf->flags);
>>>>
>>>> I am only familiar with Linux RCU subsystem, hope mm people can solve our
>>>> confusions.
>>>
>>> I don't understamd why you're still talking. The problem is understood.
>>> You need to revert the unnecessary backport of 2799e77529c2 and
>>> 2efa33fc7f6e
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, will go do so in a minute...
>
> Both now reverted from 5.10.y and 5.13.y.
>

I browsed my previous backport notifying email and found that these two patches are also
backported into 5.12. And it seems it's missed.

Thanks.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> .
>