mm: do not reclaim private data from pinned page
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:41:40 +0000 (14:41 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 11 May 2023 14:03:39 +0000 (23:03 +0900)
commit d824ec2a154677f63c56cc71ffe4578274f6e32e upstream.

If the page is pinned, there's no point in trying to reclaim it.
Furthermore if the page is from the page cache we don't want to reclaim
fs-private data from the page because the pinning process may be writing
to the page at any time and reclaiming fs private info on a dirty page can
upset the filesystem (see link below).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428124140.30166-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c

index dc66f67..d182961 100644 (file)
@@ -1887,6 +1887,16 @@ retry:
                        }
                }
 
+               /*
+                * Folio is unmapped now so it cannot be newly pinned anymore.
+                * No point in trying to reclaim folio if it is pinned.
+                * Furthermore we don't want to reclaim underlying fs metadata
+                * if the folio is pinned and thus potentially modified by the
+                * pinning process as that may upset the filesystem.
+                */
+               if (folio_maybe_dma_pinned(folio))
+                       goto activate_locked;
+
                mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
                if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
                        /*