shmem: shmem_writepage() split unlikely i915 THP
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c contains a shmem_writeback() which calls shmem_writepage() from a shrinker: that usually works well enough; but if /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled has been set to "always" (intended to be usable) or "force" (forces huge everywhere for easy testing), shmem_writepage() is surprised to be called with a huge page, and crashes on the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound) (I did not find out where the crash happens when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is off). LRU page reclaim always splits the shmem huge page first: I'd prefer not to demand that of i915, so check and split compound in shmem_writepage(). Patch history: when first sent last year http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008301401390.5954@eggly.anvils https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200919042009.bomzxmrg7%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/ Matthew Wilcox noticed that tail pages were wrongly left clean. This version brackets the split with Set and Clear PageDirty as he suggested: which works very well, even if it falls short of our aspirations. And recently I realized that the crash is not limited to the testing option "force", but affects "always" too: which is more important to fix. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bac6158c-8b3d-4dca-cffc-4982f58d9794@google.com Fixes: 2d6692e6 ("drm/i915: Start writeback from the shrinker") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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