thp: limit number of object to scan on deferred_split_scan()

If we have a lot of pages in queue to be split, deferred_split_scan()
can spend unreasonable amount of time under spinlock with disabled
interrupts.

Let's cap number of pages to split on scan by sc->nr_to_scan.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 7aae721..c141196 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3478,17 +3478,19 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
        int split = 0;
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);
-       list_splice_init(&pgdata->split_queue, &list);
-
        /* Take pin on all head pages to avoid freeing them under us */
        list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) {
                page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping);
                page = compound_head(page);
-               /* race with put_compound_page() */
-               if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+               if (get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+                       list_move(page_deferred_list(page), &list);
+               } else {
+                       /* We lost race with put_compound_page() */
                        list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page));
                        pgdata->split_queue_len--;
                }
+               if (!--sc->nr_to_scan)
+                       break;
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);