aio: v4 ensure access to ctx->ring_pages is correctly serialised for migration
As reported by Tang Chen, Gu Zheng and Yasuaki Isimatsu, the following issues exist in the aio ring page migration support. As a result, for example, we have the following problem: thread 1 | thread 2 | aio_migratepage() | |-> take ctx->completion_lock | |-> migrate_page_copy(new, old) | | *NOW*, ctx->ring_pages[idx] == old | | | *NOW*, ctx->ring_pages[idx] == old | aio_read_events_ring() | |-> ring = kmap_atomic(ctx->ring_pages[0]) | |-> ring->head = head; *HERE, write to the old ring page* | |-> kunmap_atomic(ring...
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