It is possible for file-backed pages to end up in a contiguous memory area (CMA), such that the relevant page must be migrated using the .migratepage() callback when its backing physical memory is selected for use in an CMA allocation (through cma_alloc()). However, if a set of address space operations (AOPs) for a file-backed page lacks a migratepage() page call-back, fallback_migrate_page() will be used instead, which through try_to_release_page() calls try_to_free_buffers() (which is called directly or through a try_to_free_buffers() callback. try_to_free_buffers() in turn calls drop_buffers()
drop_buffers() itself can fail due to the buffer_head associated with a page being busy. However, it is possible that the buffer_head is on an LRU list for a CPU, such that we can try removing the buffer_head from that list, in order to successfully release the page. Do this. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1606194703.git.cgold...@codeaurora.org/T/#m3a44b5745054206665455625ccaf27379df8a190 Original version of the patch (with updates to make to account for changes in on_each_cpu_cond()). v2: Follow Matthew Wilcox's suggestion of reducing the number of calls to on_each_cpu_cond(), by iterating over a page's busy buffer_heads inside of on_each_cpu_cond(). To copy from his e-mail, we go from: for_each_buffer for_each_cpu for_each_lru_entry to: for_each_cpu for_each_buffer for_each_lru_entry This is done using xarrays, which I found to be the cleanest data structure to use, though a pre-allocated array of page_size(page) / bh->b_size elements might be more performant. Laura Abbott (1): fs/buffer.c: Revoke LRU when trying to drop buffers fs/buffer.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/internal.h | 5 ++++ 2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
