mm: compaction: fix the possible deadlock when isolating hugetlb pages
When trying to isolate a migratable pageblock, it can contain several normal pages or several hugetlb pages (e.g. CONT-PTE 64K hugetlb on arm64) in a pageblock. That means we may hold the lru lock of a normal page to continue to isolate the next hugetlb page by isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page() in the same migratable pageblock. However in the isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(), it may allocate a new hugetlb page and dissolve the old one by alloc_and_dissolve_hugetlb_folio() if the hugetlb's refcount is zero. That means we can still enter the direct compaction path to allocate a new hugetlb page under the current lru lock, which may cause possible deadlock. To avoid this possible deadlock, we should release the lru lock when trying to isolate a hugetbl page. Moreover it does not make sense to take the lru lock to isolate a hugetlb, which is not in the lru list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ab3bffebe59fb419234a68dec1e4572a2518563.1678962352.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 369fa227 ("mm: make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: William Lam <william.lam@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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