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commit1c2f67308aupstream. Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem), and madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing down_write(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page). This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range() reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd(). The same deadlock could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it. __split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split. Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP (not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that __split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs, on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils Fixes:c444eb564f("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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