linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 27/67] mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split

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Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:27:19 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 27/67] mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

commit fa41b900c30b45fab03783724932dc30cd46a6be upstream.

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180315150747.31945-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: 9a982250f773 ("thp: introduce deferred_split_huge_page()")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2279,11 +2279,13 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan

 	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);
 	}