[PATCH v2 4/8] mm/memory-failure: convert process iterator to for_each_process_rculock

SJ Park sj at kernel.org
Mon Sep 7 21:24:57 UTC 2026


On Mon,  7 Sep 2026 16:13:30 +0800 Ye Liu <ye.liu at linux.dev> wrote:

> From: Ye Liu <liuye at kylinos.cn>
> 
> Replace the manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs combined
> with for_each_process() loop in mm/memory-failure.c with
> for_each_process_rculock(), which scopes the RCU read lock to the
> loop body via scoped_guard(rcu).
> 
> In collect_procs_file(), the page_pgoff() call now falls outside the
> RCU read-side critical section.  This is safe because page_pgoff()
> only reads folio->index and does not traverse any RCU-protected
> structures.

Thank you for clarifying :)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye at kylinos.cn>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe at huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj at kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

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