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    mm: hugetlb: introduce page_huge_active · bcc54222
    Naoya Horiguchi authored
    
    
    We are not safe from calling isolate_huge_page() on a hugepage
    concurrently, which can make the victim hugepage in invalid state and
    results in BUG_ON().
    
    The root problem of this is that we don't have any information on struct
    page (so easily accessible) about hugepages' activeness.  Note that
    hugepages' activeness means just being linked to
    hstate->hugepage_activelist, which is not the same as normal pages'
    activeness represented by PageActive flag.
    
    Normal pages are isolated by isolate_lru_page() which prechecks PageLRU
    before isolation, so let's do similarly for hugetlb with a new
    paeg_huge_active().
    
    set/clear_page_huge_active() should be called within hugetlb_lock.  But
    hugetlb_cow() and hugetlb_no_page() don't do this, being justified because
    in these functions set_page_huge_active() is called right after the
    hugepage is allocated and no other thread tries to isolate it.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/PageHugeActive/page_huge_active/, make it return bool]
    [fengguang.wu@intel.com: set_page_huge_active() can be static]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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