linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix long time stall from mm

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:54:12 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix long time stall from mm_populate

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 07:50:04PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 05:10:21PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 04:19:58PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > >       filemap_fault
> > >         find a page form page(PG_uptodate|PG_readahead|PG_writeback)
> > 
> > Uh ... That shouldn't be possible.
> 
> Please see shrink_page_list. Vmscan uses PG_reclaim to accelerate
> page reclaim when the writeback is done so the page will have both
> flags at the same time and the PG reclaim could be regarded as
> PG_readahead in fault conext.

What part of fault context can make that mistake?  The snippet I quoted
below is from page_cache_async_readahead() where it will clearly not
make that mistake.  There's a lot of code here; please don't presume I
know all the areas you're talking about.

> > 
> >         /*
> >          * Same bit is used for PG_readahead and PG_reclaim.
> >          */
> >         if (PageWriteback(page))
> >                 return;
> > 
> >         ClearPageReadahead(page);