4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit fa41b900c30b45fab03783724932dc30cd46a6be upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2739,11 +2739,13 @@ 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); }