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commit ae63c898f4004bbc7d212f4adcb3bb14852c30d6 upstream. During collapse, in a few places we check to see if a given small page has any unaccounted references. If the refcount on the page doesn't match our expectations, it must be there is an unknown user concurrently interested in the page, and so it's not safe to move the contents elsewhere. However, the unaccounted pins are likely an ephemeral state. In this situation, MADV_COLLAPSE returns -EINVAL when it should return -EAGAIN. This could cause userspace to conclude that the syscall failed, when it in fact could succeed by retrying. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230125015738.912924-1-zokeefe@google.com Fixes: 7d8faaf15545 ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_COLLAPSE sync hugepage collapse") Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.