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Page migration of a VM_LOCKED page tends to fail, because when the old page is unmapped, it is put on the mlock pagevec with raised refcount, which then fails the freeze. At first I thought this would be fixed by a local mlock_page_drain() at the upper rmap_walk() level - which would have nicely batched all the munlocks of that page; but tests show that the task can too easily move to another cpu, leaving pagevec residue behind which fails the migration. So try_to_migrate_one() drain the local pagevec after page_remove_rmap() from a VM_LOCKED vma; and do the same in try_to_unmap_one(), whose TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK users would want the same treatment; and do the same in remove_migration_pte() - not important when successfully inserting a new page, but necessary when hoping to retry after failure. Any new pagevec runs the risk of adding a new way of stranding, and we might discover other corners where mlock_page_drain() or lru_add_drain() would now help. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.