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Commit 356ea386 authored by andrew.yang's avatar andrew.yang Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/migrate: fix race between lock page and clear PG_Isolated



When memory is tight, system may start to compact memory for large
continuous memory demands.  If one process tries to lock a memory page
that is being locked and isolated for compaction, it may wait a long time
or even forever.  This is because compaction will perform non-atomic
PG_Isolated clear while holding page lock, this may overwrite PG_waiters
set by the process that can't obtain the page lock and add itself to the
waiting queue to wait for the lock to be unlocked.

  CPU1                            CPU2
  lock_page(page); (successful)
                                  lock_page(); (failed)
  __ClearPageIsolated(page);      SetPageWaiters(page) (may be overwritten)
  unlock_page(page);

The solution is to not perform non-atomic operation on page flags while
holding page lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315030515.20263-1-andrew.yang@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarandrew.yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "William Kucharski" <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Tang <nicholas.tang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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