mm: compaction: avoid GFP_NOFS ABBA deadlock
During stress testing with higher-order allocations, a deadlock scenario was observed in compaction: One GFP_NOFS allocation was sleeping on mm/compaction.c::too_many_isolated(), while all CPUs in the system were busy with compactors spinning on buffer locks held by the sleeping GFP_NOFS allocation. Reclaim is susceptible to this same deadlock; we fixed it by granting GFP_NOFS allocations additional LRU isolation headroom, to ensure it makes forward progress while holding fs locks that other reclaimers might acquire. Do the same here. This code has been like this since compaction was initially merged, and I only managed to trigger this with out-of-tree patches that dramatically increase the contexts that do GFP_NOFS compaction. While the issue is real, it seems theoretical in nature given existing allocation sites. Worth fixing now, but no Fixes tag or stable CC. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519111359.40475-1-hannes@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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