From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:19:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/shmem: do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit shmem_unused_huge_shrink() gets called from reclaim path. Waiting for page lock may lead to deadlock there. There was a bug report that may be attributed to this: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.11.1801242349220.30642@mail.ewheeler.net 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. We can test for the PageTransHuge() outside the page lock as we only need protection against splitting the page under us. Holding pin oni the page is enough for this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180316210830.43738-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Fixes: 779750d20b93 ("shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reported-by: Eric Wheeler Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <> (cherry-picked from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhocko/mm.git/commit/?h=since-4.15&id=73eccc61c701ee7b4223aea2079542a712feeea7) Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler --- mm/shmem.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 859e4c224b80..2aae929eb90b 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -483,36 +483,45 @@ static unsigned long shmem_unused_huge_shrink(struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo, info = list_entry(pos, struct shmem_inode_info, shrinklist); inode = &info->vfs_inode; - if (nr_to_split && split >= nr_to_split) { - iput(inode); - continue; - } + if (nr_to_split && split >= nr_to_split) + goto leave; - page = find_lock_page(inode->i_mapping, + page = find_get_page(inode->i_mapping, (inode->i_size & HPAGE_PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); if (!page) goto drop; + /* No huge page at the end of the file: nothing to split */ if (!PageTransHuge(page)) { - unlock_page(page); put_page(page); goto drop; } + /* + * Leave the inode on the list if we failed to lock + * the page at this time. + * + * Waiting for the lock may lead to deadlock in the + * reclaim path. + */ + if (!trylock_page(page)) { + put_page(page); + goto leave; + } + ret = split_huge_page(page); unlock_page(page); put_page(page); - if (ret) { - /* split failed: leave it on the list */ - iput(inode); - continue; - } + /* If split failed leave the inode on the list */ + if (ret) + goto leave; split++; drop: list_del_init(&info->shrinklist); removed++; +leave: iput(inode); } -- 2.14.2