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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index a52663c0612d..5e46836714dc 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2994,6 +2994,28 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma; vm_fault_t ret; + /* + * Preallocate pte before we take page_lock because this might lead to + * deadlocks for memcg reclaim which waits for pages under writeback: + * lock_page(A) + * SetPageWriteback(A) + * unlock_page(A) + * lock_page(B) + * lock_page(B) + * pte_alloc_pne + * shrink_page_list + * wait_on_page_writeback(A) + * SetPageWriteback(B) + * unlock_page(B) + * # flush A, B to clear the writeback + */ + if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && !vmf->prealloc_pte) { + vmf->prealloc_pte = pte_alloc_one(vmf->vma->vm_mm); + if (!vmf->prealloc_pte) + return VM_FAULT_OOM; + smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc() */ + } + ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf); if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_DONE_COW))) |