mm/munlock: page migration needs mlock pagevec drained
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 02:38:47 +0000 (18:38 -0800)
committerMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:59:40 +0000 (11:59 -0500)
commitb74355078b6554271371532a5daa3b1a3db620f9
tree2db40bdaeeb1d7842560e2d06b51236d7beb5f3a
parent2fbb0c10d1e8222604132b3a3f81bfd8345a44b6
mm/munlock: page migration needs mlock pagevec drained

Page migration of a VM_LOCKED page tends to fail, because when the old
page is unmapped, it is put on the mlock pagevec with raised refcount,
which then fails the freeze.

At first I thought this would be fixed by a local mlock_page_drain() at
the upper rmap_walk() level - which would have nicely batched all the
munlocks of that page; but tests show that the task can too easily move
to another cpu, leaving pagevec residue behind which fails the migration.

So try_to_migrate_one() drain the local pagevec after page_remove_rmap()
from a VM_LOCKED vma; and do the same in try_to_unmap_one(), whose
TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK users would want the same treatment; and do the same
in remove_migration_pte() - not important when successfully inserting
a new page, but necessary when hoping to retry after failure.

Any new pagevec runs the risk of adding a new way of stranding, and we
might discover other corners where mlock_page_drain() or lru_add_drain()
would now help.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
mm/migrate.c
mm/rmap.c