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-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index a52663c0612d..5e46836714dc 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2994,6 +2994,28 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
vm_fault_t ret;
+ /*
+ * Preallocate pte before we take page_lock because this might lead to
+ * deadlocks for memcg reclaim which waits for pages under writeback:
+ * lock_page(A)
+ * SetPageWriteback(A)
+ * unlock_page(A)
+ * lock_page(B)
+ * lock_page(B)
+ * pte_alloc_pne
+ * shrink_page_list
+ * wait_on_page_writeback(A)
+ * SetPageWriteback(B)
+ * unlock_page(B)
+ * # flush A, B to clear the writeback
+ */
+ if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && !vmf->prealloc_pte) {
+ vmf->prealloc_pte = pte_alloc_one(vmf->vma->vm_mm);
+ if (!vmf->prealloc_pte)
+ return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc() */
+ }
+
ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf);
if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY |
VM_FAULT_DONE_COW)))