On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:45:01PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > Currently, compaction would get the lru_lock and then do page isolation > which works fine with pgdat->lru_lock, since any page isoltion would > compete for the lru_lock. If we want to change to memcg lru_lock, we > have to isolate the page before getting lru_lock, thus isoltion would > block page's memcg change which relay on page isoltion too. Then we > could safely use per memcg lru_lock later. > > The new page isolation use previous introduced TestClearPageLRU() + > pgdat lru locking which will be changed to memcg lru lock later. > > Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> fixed following bugs in this patch's > early version: > > Fix lots of crashes under compaction load: isolate_migratepages_block() > must clean up appropriately when rejecting a page, setting PageLRU again > if it had been cleared; and a put_page() after get_page_unless_zero() > cannot safely be done while holding locked_lruvec - it may turn out to > be the final put_page(), which will take an lruvec lock when PageLRU. > And move __isolate_lru_page_prepare back after get_page_unless_zero to > make trylock_page() safe: > trylock_page() is not safe to use at this time: its setting PG_locked > can race with the page being freed or allocated ("Bad page"), and can > also erase flags being set by one of those "sole owners" of a freshly > allocated page who use non-atomic __SetPageFlag(). > > Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
