Multi-gen LRU: avoid race in inc_min_seq()
inc_max_seq() will try to inc_min_seq() if nr_gens == MAX_NR_GENS. This is because the generations are reused (the last oldest now empty generation will become the next youngest generation). inc_min_seq() is retried until successful, dropping the lru_lock and yielding the CPU on each failure, and retaking the lock before trying again: while (!inc_min_seq(lruvec, type, can_swap)) { spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock); cond_resched(); spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock); } However, the initial condition that required incrementing the min_seq (nr_gens == MAX_NR_GENS) is not retested. This can change by another call to inc_max_seq() from run_aging() with force_scan=true from the debugfs interface. Since the eviction stalls when the nr_gens == MIN_NR_GENS, avoid unnecessarily incrementing the min_seq by rechecking the number of generations before each attempt. This issue was uncovered in previous discussion on the list by Yu Zhao and Aneesh Kumar [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAOUHufbO7CaVm=xjEb1avDhHVvnC8pJmGyKcFf2iY_dpf+zR3w@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802025606.346758-2-kaleshsingh@google.com Fixes: d6c3af7d ("mm: multi-gen LRU: debugfs interface") Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Tested-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> [mediatek] Tested-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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