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-rw-r--r--mm/userfaultfd.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index c45b672e10d1..f5c6b3454f76 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1250,6 +1250,7 @@ retry:
*/
if (!src_folio) {
struct folio *folio;
+ bool locked;
/*
* Pin the page while holding the lock to be sure the
@@ -1269,12 +1270,26 @@ retry:
goto out;
}
+ locked = folio_trylock(folio);
+ /*
+ * We avoid waiting for folio lock with a raised
+ * refcount for large folios because extra refcounts
+ * will result in split_folio() failing later and
+ * retrying. If multiple tasks are trying to move a
+ * large folio we can end up livelocking.
+ */
+ if (!locked && folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ spin_unlock(src_ptl);
+ err = -EAGAIN;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
folio_get(folio);
src_folio = folio;
src_folio_pte = orig_src_pte;
spin_unlock(src_ptl);
- if (!folio_trylock(src_folio)) {
+ if (!locked) {
pte_unmap(&orig_src_pte);
pte_unmap(&orig_dst_pte);
src_pte = dst_pte = NULL;