[PATCH v2 22/28] mm: workingset: prevent lruvec release in workingset_activation()

Qi Zheng posted 28 patches 2 days, 8 hours ago
[PATCH v2 22/28] mm: workingset: prevent lruvec release in workingset_activation()
Posted by Qi Zheng 2 days, 8 hours ago
From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

In the near future, a folio will no longer pin its corresponding
memory cgroup. So an lruvec returned by folio_lruvec() could be
released without the rcu read lock or a reference to its memory
cgroup.

In the current patch, the rcu read lock is employed to safeguard
against the release of the lruvec in workingset_activation().

This serves as a preparatory measure for the reparenting of the
LRU pages.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
 mm/workingset.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 427ca1a5625e8..d6484f7a3ad28 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -595,8 +595,11 @@ void workingset_activation(struct folio *folio)
 	 * Filter non-memcg pages here, e.g. unmap can call
 	 * mark_page_accessed() on VDSO pages.
 	 */
-	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || folio_memcg_charged(folio))
+	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || folio_memcg_charged(folio)) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		workingset_age_nonresident(folio_lruvec(folio), folio_nr_pages(folio));
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+	}
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.20.1
Re: [PATCH v2 22/28] mm: workingset: prevent lruvec release in workingset_activation()
Posted by Johannes Weiner 1 day, 17 hours ago
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 03:27:46PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> 
> In the near future, a folio will no longer pin its corresponding
> memory cgroup. So an lruvec returned by folio_lruvec() could be
> released without the rcu read lock or a reference to its memory
> cgroup.
> 
> In the current patch, the rcu read lock is employed to safeguard
> against the release of the lruvec in workingset_activation().
> 
> This serves as a preparatory measure for the reparenting of the
> LRU pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>