The patch titled
Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: __split_huge_page() use atomic ClearPageDirty()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty.patch
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: __split_huge_page() use atomic ClearPageDirty()
Swapping load on huge=always tmpfs (with khugepaged tuned up to be very
eager, but I'm not sure that is relevant) soon hung uninterruptibly,
waiting for page lock in shmem_getpage_gfp()'s find_lock_entry(), most
often when "cp -a" was trying to write to a smallish file. Debug showed
that the page in question was not locked, and page->mapping NULL by now,
but page->index consistent with having been in a huge page before.
Reproduced in minutes on a 4.15 kernel, even with 4.17's 605ca5ede764
("mm/huge_memory.c: reorder operations in __split_huge_page_tail()") added
in; but took hours to reproduce on a 4.17 kernel (no idea why).
The culprit proved to be the __ClearPageDirty() on tails beyond i_size in
__split_huge_page(): the non-atomic __bitoperation may have been safe when
4.8's baa355fd3314 ("thp: file pages support for split_huge_page()")
introduced it, but liable to erase PageWaiters after 4.10's 62906027091f
("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit").
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805291841070.3197@eggly.anvils
Fixes: 62906027091f ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct pag
__split_huge_page_tail(head, i, lruvec, list);
/* Some pages can be beyond i_size: drop them from page cache */
if (head[i].index >= end) {
- __ClearPageDirty(head + i);
+ ClearPageDirty(head + i);
__delete_from_page_cache(head + i, NULL);
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && PageSwapBacked(head))
shmem_uncharge(head->mapping->host, 1);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-huge_memoryc-__split_huge_page-use-atomic-clearpagedirty.patch
