Hi Simon,
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Simon Jeons wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 02:32 +0100, Petr Holasek wrote:
> >
> > v7: - added sysfs ABI documentation for KSM
>
> Hi Petr,
>
> How you handle "memory corruption because the ksm page still points to
> the stable_node that has been freed" mentioned by Andrea this time?
>
<snip>
> >
> > + /*
> > + * If tree_page has been migrated to another NUMA node, it
> > + * will be flushed out and put into the right unstable tree
> > + * next time: only merge with it if merge_across_nodes.
>
> Why? Do you mean swap based migration? Or where I miss ....?
>
It can be physical page migration triggered by page compaction, memory hotplug
or some NUMA sched/memory balancing algorithm developed recently.
> > + * Just notice, we don't have similar problem for PageKsm
> > + * because their migration is disabled now. (62b61f611e)
> > + */
Migration of KSM pages is disabled now, you can look into ^^^ commit and
changes introduced to migrate.c.
> > + if (!ksm_merge_across_nodes && page_to_nid(tree_page) != nid) {
> > + put_page(tree_page);
> > + return NULL;
> > + }
> > +
> > ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page);
</snip>
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