summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/mm/mlock.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index c59c420fd6e1..192e6eebe4f2 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -298,10 +298,12 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pagevec *pvec, struct zone *zone)
{
int i;
int nr = pagevec_count(pvec);
- int delta_munlocked = -nr;
+ int delta_munlocked;
struct pagevec pvec_putback;
int pgrescued = 0;
+ pagevec_init(&pvec_putback, 0);
+
/* Phase 1: page isolation */
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
@@ -330,18 +332,21 @@ skip_munlock:
/*
* We won't be munlocking this page in the next phase
* but we still need to release the follow_page_mask()
- * pin.
+ * pin. We cannot do it under lru_lock however. If it's
+ * the last pin, __page_cache_release would deadlock.
*/
+ pagevec_add(&pvec_putback, pvec->pages[i]);
pvec->pages[i] = NULL;
- put_page(page);
- delta_munlocked++;
}
}
+ delta_munlocked = -nr + pagevec_count(&pvec_putback);
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_MLOCK, delta_munlocked);
spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+ /* Now we can release pins of pages that we are not munlocking */
+ pagevec_release(&pvec_putback);
+
/* Phase 2: page munlock */
- pagevec_init(&pvec_putback, 0);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];