From 3b25df93c6e37e323b86a2a8c1e00c0a2821c6c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:58:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: munlock: fix deadlock in __munlock_pagevec() Commit 7225522bb429 ("mm: munlock: batch non-THP page isolation and munlock+putback using pagevec" introduced __munlock_pagevec() to speed up munlock by holding lru_lock over multiple isolated pages. Pages that fail to be isolated are put_page()d immediately, also within the lock. This can lead to deadlock when __munlock_pagevec() becomes the holder of the last page pin and put_page() leads to __page_cache_release() which also locks lru_lock. The deadlock has been observed by Sasha Levin using trinity. This patch avoids the deadlock by deferring put_page() operations until lru_lock is released. Another pagevec (which is also used by later phases of the function is reused to gather the pages for put_page() operation. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Reported-by: Sasha Levin Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed