Commit 7d212a51 authored by Laura Abbott's avatar Laura Abbott Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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FROMLIST: fs/buffer.c: Revoke LRU when trying to drop buffers

When a buffer is added to the LRU list, a reference is taken which is
not dropped until the buffer is evicted from the LRU list. This is the
correct behavior, however this LRU reference will prevent the buffer
from being dropped. This means that the buffer can't actually be dropped
until it is selected for eviction. There's no bound on the time spent
on the LRU list, which means that the buffer may be undroppable for
very long periods of time. Given that migration involves dropping
buffers, the associated page is now unmigratible for long periods of
time as well. CMA relies on being able to migrate a specific range
of pages, so these types of failures make CMA significantly
less reliable, especially under high filesystem usage.

Rather than waiting for the LRU algorithm to eventually kick out
the buffer, explicitly remove the buffer from the LRU list when trying
to drop it. There is still the possibility that the buffer
could be added back on the list, but that indicates the buffer is
still in use and would probably have other 'in use' indicates to
prevent dropping.

Note: a bug reported by "kernel test robot" lead to a switch from
using xas_for_each() to xa_for_each().

Bug: 174118021
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/cover.1611642038.git.cgoldswo@codeaurora.org/


Signed-off-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Goldsworthy <cgoldswo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Change-Id: I561fa3ac7e8874e27d4ad8e1d62ab62e18dd419c
parent 4b5f345c
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