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mm/huge_memory.c: __split_huge_page() use atomic ClearPageDirty()
Swapping load on huge=always tmpfs (with khugepaged tuned up to be very eager, but I'm not sure that is relevant) soon hung uninterruptibly, waiting for page lock in shmem_getpage_gfp()'s find_lock_entry(), most often when "cp -a" was trying to write to a smallish file. Debug showed that the page in question was not locked, and page->mapping NULL by now, but page->index consistent with having been in a huge page before. Reproduced in minutes on a 4.15 kernel, even with 4.17's 605ca5e ("mm/huge_memory.c: reorder operations in __split_huge_page_tail()") added in; but took hours to reproduce on a 4.17 kernel (no idea why). The culprit proved to be the __ClearPageDirty() on tails beyond i_size in __split_huge_page(): the non-atomic __bitoperation may have been safe when 4.8's baa355f ("thp: file pages support for split_huge_page()") introduced it, but liable to erase PageWaiters after 4.10's 6290602 ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 6290602 ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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