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Issue: When getting a page (buf_page_get_gen) with no latch option
(RW_NO_LATCH), the caller is not expected to follow the B-tree latching
order. However in buf_page_get_low we try to acquire shared page latch
unconditionally to wait for a page that is being loaded by another
thread concurrently. In general it could lead to latch order violation
and deadlock.

Currently it affects the change buffer insert path btr_latch_prev()
which tries to load the previous page out of order with RW_NO_LATCH and
two concurrent inserts into IBUF tree cause deadlock. This problem is
introduced in 10.6 by following commit.
commit 9436c778 (MDEV-27058)

Fix: While trying to latch a page with RW_NO_LATCH, always use the
"*lock_try" interface and retry operation on failure after unfixing the
page.