linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/thp: Do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:07:47 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/thp: Do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()

deferred_split_scan() gets called from reclaim path. Waiting for page
lock may lead to deadlock there.

Replace lock_page() with trylock_page() and skip the page if we failed
to lock it. We will get to the page on the next scan.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 87ab9b8f56b5..529cf36b7edb 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2783,11 +2783,13 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
 
 	list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) {
 		page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping);
-		lock_page(page);
+		if (!trylock_page(page))
+			goto next;
 		/* split_huge_page() removes page from list on success */
 		if (!split_huge_page(page))
 			split++;
 		unlock_page(page);
+next:
 		put_page(page);
 	}
 
-- 
2.16.1