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    mm: introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) to synchronize setting PageOffline() · 82840451
    David Hildenbrand authored
    A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and turn
    the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page
    content can be fatal.  One example is virtio-mem; while unplugged memory
    -- marked as PageOffline() can currently be read in the hypervisor, this
    will no longer be the case in the future; for example, when having a
    virtio-mem device backed by huge pages in the hypervisor.
    
    Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random
    pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race
    with drivers that set PageOffline().
    
    Let's introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) for synchronizing.
    
    page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to
    synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set
    PageOffline() while frozen.
    
    page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about
    such races when setting a page PageOffline().
    
    For simplicity, use a rwsem for now; neither drivers nor users are
    performance sensitive.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-5-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
    Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
    Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
    Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
    Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
    Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
    Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
    Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
    Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
    Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
    Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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