Re: [PATCH] mm/z3fold.c: remove z3fold_migration trylock

From: Henry Burns
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 17:51:57 EST


> > z3fold_page_migrate() will never succeed because it attempts to acquire a
> > lock that has already been taken by migrate.c in __unmap_and_move().
> >
> > __unmap_and_move() migrate.c
> > trylock_page(oldpage)
> > move_to_new_page(oldpage_newpage)
> > a_ops->migrate_page(oldpage, newpage)
> > z3fold_page_migrate(oldpage, newpage)
> > trylock_page(oldpage)
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Henry Burns <henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please add the Fixes tag as well.
Fixes: 1f862989b04a ("mm/z3fold.c: support page migration")
>
> > ---
> > mm/z3fold.c | 6 ------
> > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
> > index 985732c8b025..9fe9330ab8ae 100644
> > --- a/mm/z3fold.c
> > +++ b/mm/z3fold.c
> > @@ -1335,16 +1335,11 @@ static int z3fold_page_migrate(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpa
> > zhdr = page_address(page);
> > pool = zhdr_to_pool(zhdr);
> >
> > - if (!trylock_page(page))
> > - return -EAGAIN;
> > -
> > if (!z3fold_page_trylock(zhdr)) {
> > - unlock_page(page);
> > return -EAGAIN;
> > }
> > if (zhdr->mapped_count != 0) {
> > z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr);
> > - unlock_page(page);
> > return -EBUSY;
> > }
> > new_zhdr = page_address(newpage);
> > @@ -1376,7 +1371,6 @@ static int z3fold_page_migrate(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpa
> > queue_work_on(new_zhdr->cpu, pool->compact_wq, &new_zhdr->work);
> >
> > page_mapcount_reset(page);
> > - unlock_page(page);
> > put_page(page);
> > return 0;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
> >