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author | Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> | 2020-12-15 23:33:33 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-16 01:48:03 +0300 |
commit | b6769834aac1d467fa1c71277d15688efcbb4d76 (patch) | |
tree | 2e713ea6c0befcc37b2212514aa0f20520feb1bb /mm/vmscan.c | |
parent | 6dbb57412c62a8537663dc786e27faa0e084ddce (diff) | |
download | linux-b6769834aac1d467fa1c71277d15688efcbb4d76.tar.xz |
mm/thp: narrow lru locking
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.
[hughd@google.com: rewrite commit log]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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