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When memory is tight, system may start to compact memory for large
continuous memory demands. If one process tries to lock a memory page
that is being locked and isolated for compaction, it may wait a long time
or even forever. This is because compaction will perform non-atomic
PG_Isolated clear while holding page lock, this may overwrite PG_waiters
set by the process that can't obtain the page lock and add itself to the
waiting queue to wait for the lock to be unlocked.
CPU1 CPU2
lock_page(page); (successful)
lock_page(); (failed)
__ClearPageIsolated(page); SetPageWaiters(page) (may be overwritten)
unlock_page(page);
The solution is to not perform non-atomic operation on page flags while
holding page lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315030515.20263-1-andrew.yang@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: andrew.yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "William Kucharski" <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Tang <nicholas.tang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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