lru_lock and page cache xa_lock have no obvious reason to be taken
one way round or the other: until now, lru_lock has been taken before
page cache xa_lock, when splitting a THP; but nothing else takes them
together.  Reverse that ordering: let's narrow the lru locking - but
leave local_irq_disable to block interrupts throughout, like before.

Hugh Dickins point: split_huge_page_to_list() was already silly, to be
using the _irqsave variant: it's just been taking sleeping locks, so
would already be broken if entered with interrupts enabled.  So we
can save passing flags argument down to __split_huge_page().

Why change the lock ordering here? That was hard to decide. One reason:
when this series reaches per-memcg lru locking, it relies on the THP's
memcg to be stable when taking the lru_lock: that is now done after the
THP's refcount has been frozen, which ensures page memcg cannot change.

Another reason: previously, lock_page_memcg()'s move_lock was presumed
to nest inside lru_lock; but now lru_lock must nest inside (page cache
lock inside) move_lock, so it becomes possible to use lock_page_memcg()
to stabilize page memcg before taking its lru_lock.  That is not the
mechanism used in this series, but it is an option we want to keep open.

[Hugh Dickins: rewrite commit log]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex....@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kir...@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 4b72dd7b8b34..5fa890e26975 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int 
tail,
 }
 
 static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
-               pgoff_t end, unsigned long flags)
+               pgoff_t end)
 {
        struct page *head = compound_head(page);
        pg_data_t *pgdat = page_pgdat(head);
@@ -2443,8 +2443,6 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list,
        unsigned int nr = thp_nr_pages(head);
        int i;
 
-       lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(head, pgdat);
-
        /* complete memcg works before add pages to LRU */
        mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(head);
 
@@ -2456,6 +2454,11 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list,
                xa_lock(&swap_cache->i_pages);
        }
 
+       /* prevent PageLRU to go away from under us, and freeze lru stats */
+       spin_lock(&pgdat->lru_lock);
+
+       lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(head, pgdat);
+
        for (i = nr - 1; i >= 1; i--) {
                __split_huge_page_tail(head, i, lruvec, list);
                /* Some pages can be beyond i_size: drop them from page cache */
@@ -2475,6 +2478,8 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list,
        }
 
        ClearPageCompound(head);
+       spin_unlock(&pgdat->lru_lock);
+       /* Caller disabled irqs, so they are still disabled here */
 
        split_page_owner(head, nr);
 
@@ -2492,8 +2497,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list,
                page_ref_add(head, 2);
                xa_unlock(&head->mapping->i_pages);
        }
-
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
+       local_irq_enable();
 
        remap_page(head, nr);
 
@@ -2639,12 +2643,10 @@ bool can_split_huge_page(struct page *page, int 
*pextra_pins)
 int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 {
        struct page *head = compound_head(page);
-       struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(head));
        struct deferred_split *ds_queue = get_deferred_split_queue(head);
        struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
        struct address_space *mapping = NULL;
        int count, mapcount, extra_pins, ret;
-       unsigned long flags;
        pgoff_t end;
 
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(head), head);
@@ -2705,9 +2707,8 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list)
        unmap_page(head);
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_mapcount(head), head);
 
-       /* prevent PageLRU to go away from under us, and freeze lru stats */
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->lru_lock, flags);
-
+       /* block interrupt reentry in xa_lock and spinlock */
+       local_irq_disable();
        if (mapping) {
                XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, page_index(head));
 
@@ -2737,7 +2738,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list)
                                __dec_node_page_state(head, NR_FILE_THPS);
                }
 
-               __split_huge_page(page, list, end, flags);
+               __split_huge_page(page, list, end);
                ret = 0;
        } else {
                if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) && mapcount) {
@@ -2751,7 +2752,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct 
list_head *list)
                spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock);
 fail:          if (mapping)
                        xa_unlock(&mapping->i_pages);
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->lru_lock, flags);
+               local_irq_enable();
                remap_page(head, thp_nr_pages(head));
                ret = -EBUSY;
        }
-- 
1.8.3.1

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