The patch titled
Subject: mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix.patch
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:17:07PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> Reverting the "Return head pages from find_*_entry" patchset [1] up to this
> patch fixed the issue that LTP madvise06 test [2] would trigger endless soft-
> lockups below. It does not help after applied patches fixed other separate
> issues in the patchset [3][4].
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200914165032.GS6583@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix
+++ a/mm/madvise.c
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ static void force_shm_swapin_readahead(s
if (!xa_is_value(page))
continue;
+ xas_pause(&xas);
rcu_read_unlock();
swap = radix_to_swp_entry(page);
@@ -243,7 +244,6 @@ static void force_shm_swapin_readahead(s
put_page(page);
rcu_read_lock();
- xas_reset(&xas);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-debug-do-not-dereference-i_ino-blindly.patch
mm-factor-find_get_incore_page-out-of-mincore_page.patch
mm-use-find_get_incore_page-in-memcontrol.patch
mm-optimise-madvise-willneed.patch
mm-optimise-madvise-willneed-fix.patch
proc-optimise-smaps-for-shmem-entries.patch
i915-use-find_lock_page-instead-of-find_lock_entry.patch
mm-convert-find_get_entry-to-return-the-head-page.patch
mm-shmem-return-head-page-from-find_lock_entry.patch
mm-add-find_lock_head.patch
mm-filemap-fix-filemap_map_pages-for-thp.patch
mm-account-pmd-tables-like-pte-tables.patch
mm-move-pagedoublemap-bit.patch
mm-simplify-pagedoublemap-with-pf_second-policy.patch
xarray-add-xa_get_order.patch
xarray-add-xas_split.patch
xarray-add-xas_split-fix-2.patch
mm-filemap-fix-storing-to-a-thp-shadow-entry.patch
mm-filemap-fix-page-cache-removal-for-arbitrary-sized-thps.patch
mm-memory-remove-page-fault-assumption-of-compound-page-size.patch
mm-page_owner-change-split_page_owner-to-take-a-count.patch
mm-huge_memory-fix-page_trans_huge_mapcount-assumption-of-thp-size.patch
mm-huge_memory-fix-can_split_huge_page-assumption-of-thp-size.patch
mm-rmap-fix-assumptions-of-thp-size.patch
mm-truncate-fix-truncation-for-pages-of-arbitrary-size.patch
mm-page-writeback-support-tail-pages-in-wait_for_stable_page.patch
mm-vmscan-allow-arbitrary-sized-pages-to-be-paged-out.patch
mm-readahead-add-define_readahead.patch
mm-readahead-make-page_cache_ra_unbounded-take-a-readahead_control.patch
mm-readahead-make-do_page_cache_ra-take-a-readahead_control.patch
mm-readahead-add-page_cache_sync_ra-and-page_cache_async_ra.patch
harden-autofs-ioctl-table.patch
