Commit 3b11edf1 authored by Tetsuo Handa's avatar Tetsuo Handa Committed by Andrew Morton

mm/page_alloc: don't wake kswapd from rmqueue() unless __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM is specified

Commit 73444bc4 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock
held") moved wakeup_kswapd() from steal_suitable_fallback() to rmqueue()
using ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK flag.

Only allocation contexts that include ALLOC_KSWAPD (which corresponds to
__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) should wake kswapd, for callers are supposed to
remove __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM if trying to hold pgdat->kswapd_wait has a
risk of deadlock.  But since zone->flags is a shared variable, a thread
doing !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM allocation request might observe this flag
being set immediately after another thread doing __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM
allocation request set this flag, causing possibility of deadlock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3c3dacf-dd3b-77c9-f96a-d0982b4b2a4f@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Fixes: 73444bc4 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 837c2ba5
......@@ -2827,7 +2827,8 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
out:
/* Separate test+clear to avoid unnecessary atomics */
if (unlikely(test_bit(ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK, &zone->flags))) {
if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD) &&
unlikely(test_bit(ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK, &zone->flags))) {
clear_bit(ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK, &zone->flags);
wakeup_kswapd(zone, 0, 0, zone_idx(zone));
}
......
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