The patch titled Subject: mm/thp: fix deadlock in collapse_file() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp-v4-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Subject: mm/thp: fix deadlock in collapse_file() As syzbot reported, we cannot call filemap_flush() with the page locked. Remove the filemap_flush() as it is not required. khugepaged would just wait until the page is flushed naturally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191028221414.3685035-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+efb9e48b9fbdc49bb34a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/khugepaged.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp-v4-fix +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1640,16 +1640,8 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_stru /* * khugepaged only works on read-only fd, so this * page is dirty because it hasn't been flushed - * since first write. There won't be new dirty - * pages. - * - * Trigger async flush here and hope the writeback - * is done when khugepaged revisits this page. - * - * This is a one-off situation. We are not forcing - * writeback in loop. + * since first write. */ - filemap_flush(mapping); result = SCAN_FAIL; goto out_unlock; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from songliubraving@xxxxxx are mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp.patch