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mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get_pages()
Callers of find_get_pages(), or its wrapper pagevec_lookup() - notably truncate_inode_pages_range() - stop looking further when it returns 0. But if an interrupt comes just after its radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot(), especially if we have preemptible RCU enabled, isn't it conceivable that all 14 pages returned could be removed from the page cache by shrink_page_list(), before find_get_pages() gets to process them? So causing it to return 0 although there may be plenty more pages beyond. Make find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_tag() check for this unlikely case, and restart should it occur; but callers of find_get_pages_contig() have no such expectation, it's okay for that to return 0 early. I have not seen this in practice, just worried by the possibility. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> Cc: Salman Qazi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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