[PATCH v11 07/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap

[Barry Song]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 7:07 AM Yu Zhao <yuzhao at google.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:37 AM Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 9:25 PM Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 4:49 PM Yu Zhao <yuzhao at google.com> wrote:
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> ...
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> > I can't really explain why we are getting a random app/java vm crash in monkey
> > test by using ptep_test_and_clear_young() only in lru_gen_look_around() on an
> > armv8-a machine without hardware PTE young support.
> >
> > Moving to  ptep_clear_flush_young() in look_around can make the random
> > hang disappear according to zhanyuan(Cc-ed).
>
> This sounds too familiar -- let me ask again: was the following commit
> included during the test?
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>   07509e10dcc7 arm64: pgtable: Fix pte_accessible()
>
> If not, it will cause exactly the problem you described. And what
> about this one?
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>   e914d8f00391 mm: fix unexpected zeroed page mapping with zram swap
>
> Missing it also causes userspace memory corruption on Android, i.e.,
> random app crashes.
>

According to zhanyuan's testing, we can confirm the above two commits
can fix the random android crash.

Thanks
Barry