mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()
authorKirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:17:31 +0000 (16:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:07:01 +0000 (17:07 -0700)
commitfa41b900c30b45fab03783724932dc30cd46a6be
tree4468eaa7456c2e6a439be4df0ed2ec8238e4fa46
parentfece2029a9e65b9a990831afe2a2b83290cbbe26
mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()

deferred_split_scan() gets called from reclaim path.  Waiting for page
lock may lead to deadlock there.

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 9a982250f773 ("thp: introduce deferred_split_huge_page()")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/huge_memory.c