Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: Do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink()

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Fri 16-03-18 13:59:08, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
[..]
> @@ -498,31 +498,42 @@ static unsigned long shmem_unused_huge_shrink(struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo,
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> -		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;
> +		}

Can somebody split the huge page after the PageTransHuge check and
before we lock it?

> +
>  		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);
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.16.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs