[PATCH] MM: reclaim mustn't enter FS for swap-over-NFS

[NeilBrown]

If swap-out is using filesystem operations (SWP_FS_OPS), then it is not
safe to enter the FS for reclaim.
So only down-grade the requirement for swap pages to __GFP_IO after
checking that SWP_FS_OPS are not being used.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index fb9584641ac7..e672fcc14bac 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,21 @@ static unsigned int demote_page_list(struct list_head =
*demote_pages,
 	return nr_succeeded;
 }
=20
+static bool test_may_enter_fs(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
+		return true;
+	if (!PageSwapCache(page) || !(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+		return false;
+	/* We can "enter_fs" for swap-cache with only __GFP_IO
+	 * providing this isn't SWP_FS_OPS.
+	 * ->flags can be updated non-atomicially (scan_swap_map_slots),
+	 * but that will never affect SWP_FS_OPS, so the data_race
+	 * is safe.
+	 */
+	return !data_race(page_swap_info(page)->flags & SWP_FS_OPS);
+}
+
 /*
  * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
  */
@@ -1513,8 +1528,7 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *=
page_list,
 		if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
 			goto keep_locked;
=20
-		may_enter_fs =3D (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
-			(PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
+		may_enter_fs =3D test_may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask);
=20
 		/*
 		 * The number of dirty pages determines if a node is marked
@@ -1682,7 +1696,8 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *=
page_list,
 						goto activate_locked_split;
 				}
=20
-				may_enter_fs =3D true;
+				may_enter_fs =3D test_may_enter_fs(page,
+								 sc->gfp_mask);
=20
 				/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
 				mapping =3D page_mapping(page);
--=20
2.33.1