The patch titled Subject: mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: 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/20180315150747.31945-1-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 9a982250f773 ("thp: introduce deferred_split_huge_page()") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2783,11 +2783,13 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) { page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping); - lock_page(page); + if (!trylock_page(page)) + goto next; /* split_huge_page() removes page from list on success */ if (!split_huge_page(page)) split++; unlock_page(page); +next: put_page(page); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-khugepaged-convert-vm_bug_on-to-collapse-fail.patch mm-thp-do-not-wait-for-lock_page-in-deferred_split_scan.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html