From 3b11edf1f2398cac206a224308de6628ebeea924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 09:28:56 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: don't wake kswapd from rmqueue() unless __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM is specified Commit 73444bc4d8f9 ("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: 73444bc4d8f9 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7e86735..091a6cb 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -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)); } -- 2.7.4