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During stress testing with higher-order allocations, a deadlock scenario was observed in compaction: One GFP_NOFS allocation was sleeping on mm/compaction.c::too_many_isolated(), while all CPUs in the system were busy with compactors spinning on buffer locks held by the sleeping GFP_NOFS allocation. Reclaim is susceptible to this same deadlock; we fixed it by granting GFP_NOFS allocations additional LRU isolation headroom, to ensure it makes forward progress while holding fs locks that other reclaimers might acquire. Do the same here. This code has been like this since compaction was initially merged, and I only managed to trigger this with out-of-tree patches that dramatically increase the contexts that do GFP_NOFS compaction. While the issue is real, it seems theoretical in nature given existing allocation sites. Worth fixing now, but no Fixes tag or stable CC. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519111359.40475-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.