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mm/page_alloc: don't wake kswapd from rmqueue() unless __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM is specified
authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Sun, 14 May 2023 00:28:56 +0000 (09:28 +0900)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 9 Jun 2023 23:25:50 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
commit3b11edf1f2398cac206a224308de6628ebeea924
treee33758e27d35488f57341d62cc4e40cf8e6a3a9b
parent837c2ba56d6fd1ecf7a1c5aa0cdc872f3b74185b
mm/page_alloc: don't wake kswapd from rmqueue() unless __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM is specified

Commit 73444bc4d8f9 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock
held") moved wakeup_kswapd() from steal_suitable_fallback() to rmqueue()
using ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK flag.

Only allocation contexts that include ALLOC_KSWAPD (which corresponds to
__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) should wake kswapd, for callers are supposed to
remove __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM if trying to hold pgdat->kswapd_wait has a
risk of deadlock.  But since zone->flags is a shared variable, a thread
doing !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM allocation request might observe this flag
being set immediately after another thread doing __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM
allocation request set this flag, causing possibility of deadlock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3c3dacf-dd3b-77c9-f96a-d0982b4b2a4f@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Fixes: 73444bc4d8f9 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c