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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index dbe6ea321df4..8ff834e19c24 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1124,8 +1124,20 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
nr_lumpy_dirty++;
scan++;
} else {
- /* the page is freed already. */
- if (!page_count(cursor_page))
+ /*
+ * Check if the page is freed already.
+ *
+ * We can't use page_count() as that
+ * requires compound_head and we don't
+ * have a pin on the page here. If a
+ * page is tail, we may or may not
+ * have isolated the head, so assume
+ * it's not free, it'd be tricky to
+ * track the head status without a
+ * page pin.
+ */
+ if (!PageTail(cursor_page) &&
+ !atomic_read(&cursor_page->_count))
continue;
break;
}