Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: Do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink()

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:13:03PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 16-03-18 13:59:08, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> [..]
> > @@ -498,31 +498,42 @@ static unsigned long shmem_unused_huge_shrink(struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo,
> >  			continue;
> >  		}
> >  
> > -		page = find_lock_page(inode->i_mapping,
> > +		page = find_get_page(inode->i_mapping,
> >  				(inode->i_size & HPAGE_PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >  		if (!page)
> >  			goto drop;
> >  
> > +		/* No huge page at the end of the file: nothing to split */
> >  		if (!PageTransHuge(page)) {
> > -			unlock_page(page);
> >  			put_page(page);
> >  			goto drop;
> >  		}
> >  
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Leave the inode on the list if we failed to lock
> > +		 * the page at this time.
> > +		 *
> > +		 * Waiting for the lock may lead to deadlock in the
> > +		 * reclaim path.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (!trylock_page(page)) {
> > +			put_page(page);
> > +			goto leave;
> > +		}
> 
> Can somebody split the huge page after the PageTransHuge check and
> before we lock it?

Nope. Pin on the page is enough to prevent split.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov