Commit ffc90cbb authored by Xu Yu's avatar Xu Yu Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: use head page in __migration_entry_wait()

We notice that hung task happens in a corner but practical scenario when
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is enabled, as follows.

Process 0                       Process 1                     Process 2..Inf
split_huge_page_to_list
    unmap_page
        split_huge_pmd_address
                                __migration_entry_wait(head)
                                                              __migration_entry_wait(tail)
    remap_page (roll back)
        remove_migration_ptes
            rmap_walk_anon
                cond_resched

Where __migration_entry_wait(tail) is occurred in kernel space, e.g.,
copy_to_user in fstat, which will immediately fault again without
rescheduling, and thus occupy the cpu fully.

When there are too many processes performing __migration_entry_wait on
tail page, remap_page will never be done after cond_resched.

This makes __migration_entry_wait operate on the compound head page,
thus waits for remap_page to complete, whether the THP is split
successfully or roll back.

Note that put_and_wait_on_page_locked helps to drop the page reference
acquired with get_page_unless_zero, as soon as the page is on the wait
queue, before actually waiting.  So splitting the THP is only prevented
for a brief interval.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9836c1dd522e903891760af9f0c86a2cce987eb.1623144009.git.xuyu@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: ba988280 ("thp: add option to setup migration entries during PMD split")
Suggested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1b3865d0
......@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
goto out;
page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
page = compound_head(page);
/*
* Once page cache replacement of page migration started, page_count
......
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