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: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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