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Qi Zheng authored
Commit 63f3655f ("mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback") fix the following ABBA deadlock by pre-allocating the pte page table without holding the page lock. lock_page(A) SetPageWriteback(A) unlock_page(A) lock_page(B) lock_page(B) pte_alloc_one shrink_page_list wait_on_page_writeback(A) SetPageWriteback(B) unlock_page(B) # flush A, B to clear the writeback Commit f9ce0be7 ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths") reworked the relevant code but ignored this race. This will cause the deadlock above to appear again, so fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721074849.57004-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Fixes: f9ce0be7 ("mm: Cleanup faultaroun...
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