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Linus Torvalds cd1adf1b63 Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly" 
This reverts commit 9857a17f20.

That commit was completely broken, and I should have caught on to it
earlier.  But happily, the kernel test robot noticed the breakage fairly
quickly.

The breakage is because "try_get_page()" is about avoiding the page
reference count overflow case, but is otherwise the exact same as a
plain "get_page()".

In contrast, "try_get_compound_head()" is an entirely different beast,
and uses __page_cache_add_speculative() because it's not just about the
page reference count, but also about possibly racing with the underlying
page going away.

So all the commentary about how

 "try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance,
  try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more
  thoroughly"

was just completely wrong: yes, try_get_compound_head() handles
speculative page references, but the point is that try_get_page() does
not, and must not.

So there's no lack of maintainance - there are fundamentally different
semantics.

A speculative page reference would be entirely wrong in "get_page()",
and it's entirely wrong in "try_get_page()".  It's not about
speculation, it's purely about "uhhuh, you can't get this page because
you've tried to increment the reference count too much already".

The reason the kernel test robot noticed this bug was that it hit the
VM_BUG_ON() in __page_cache_add_speculative(), which is all about
verifying that the context of any speculative page access is correct.
But since that isn't what try_get_page() is all about, the VM_BUG_ON()
tests things that are not correct to test for try_get_page().

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-07 11:03:45 -07:00
arch Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly" 2021-09-07 11:03:45 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-09-05 2021-09-06 10:06:26 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation Tracing updates for 5.15: 2021-09-05 11:50:41 -07:00
drivers thunderbolt: test: split up test cases in tb_test_credit_alloc_all 2021-09-06 12:27:03 -07:00
fs Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly" 2021-09-07 11:03:45 -07:00
include Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly" 2021-09-07 11:03:45 -07:00
init Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds 2021-09-05 11:24:05 -07:00
ipc memcg: enable accounting of ipc resources 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
kernel Tracing updates for 5.15: 2021-09-05 11:50:41 -07:00
lib lib/test_scanf: split up number parsing test routines 2021-09-06 11:04:03 -07:00
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mm Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly" 2021-09-07 11:03:45 -07:00
net NFS Client Updates for Linux 5.15 2021-09-04 10:25:26 -07:00
samples VFIO update for v5.15-rc1 2021-09-02 13:41:33 -07:00
scripts don't make the syscall checking produce errors from warnings 2021-09-06 09:15:09 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v5.15: 2021-09-05 11:56:18 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS misc-5.15-2021-09-05 2021-09-06 10:00:25 -07:00
Makefile Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds 2021-09-05 11:24:05 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.