From: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz
commit d824ec2a154677f63c56cc71ffe4578274f6e32e upstream.
If the page is pinned, there's no point in trying to reclaim it. Furthermore if the page is from the page cache we don't want to reclaim fs-private data from the page because the pinning process may be writing to the page at any time and reclaiming fs private info on a dirty page can upset the filesystem (see link below).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428124140.30166-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Acked-by: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- mm/vmscan.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1905,6 +1905,16 @@ retry: } }
+ /* + * Folio is unmapped now so it cannot be newly pinned anymore. + * No point in trying to reclaim folio if it is pinned. + * Furthermore we don't want to reclaim underlying fs metadata + * if the folio is pinned and thus potentially modified by the + * pinning process as that may upset the filesystem. + */ + if (folio_maybe_dma_pinned(folio)) + goto activate_locked; + mapping = folio_mapping(folio); if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) { /*