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mm: allow set/clear page_type again
Some page flags (page->flags) were converted to page types (page->page_types). A recent example is PG_hugetlb. From the exclusive writer's perspective, e.g., a thread doing __folio_set_hugetlb(), there is a difference between the page flag and type APIs: the former allows the same non-atomic operation to be repeated whereas the latter does not. For example, calling __folio_set_hugetlb() twice triggers VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(), since the second call expects the type (PG_hugetlb) not to be set previously. Using add_hugetlb_folio() as an example, it calls __folio_set_hugetlb() in the following error-handling path. And when that happens, it triggers the aforementioned VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(). if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) { rc = hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio); if (rc) { spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock); add_hugetlb_folio(h, folio, false); ... It is possible to make hugeTLB comply with the new requirements from the page type API. However, a straightforward fix would be to just allow the same page type to be set or cleared again inside the API, to avoid any changes to its callers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241020042212.296781-1-yuzhao@google.com Fixes: d99e3140 ("mm: turn folio_test_hugetlb into a PageType") Signed-off-by:Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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