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If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nikolaos Karaolidis [ Upstream commit 8ee09f597763acfd31c62a578ba88b792fc41b24 ] When inode_lru_isolate() drops the page cache of an unused inode, it has to unlock the list, so it returns LRU_RETRY and the walk restarts at the head of the list, where the inode still is. If invalidate_mapping_pages() could not empty the mapping, the restarted walk strips the same inode again, and so on until nr_to_walk runs out. Every walk of that list then ends on this inode, and nothing behind it is reclaimed for as long as its cache stays. Before commit 2a0629834cd8 ("vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context") the walker pinned the inode with a reference, and dropping it in iput_final() set I_REFERENCED, so the restarted walk rotated the inode to the tail. Set I_REFERENCED again when the mapping is still populated after the invalidation, in the same i_lock section that clears I_LRU_ISOLATING. inode_unpin_lru_isolating() now expects i_lock to be held, like inode_pin_lru_isolating(). On CONFIG_HIGHMEM kernels this can happen to any unused inode: a folio is left behind if it is locked, under writeback, spliced into a pipe, or still in another CPU's LRU-add batch after being read. Without HIGHMEM it happens to DAX inodes whose only entry is at index 0, which mapping_shrinkable() lets onto the LRU and invalidate_mapping_pages() never removes. Fixes: 2a0629834cd8 ("vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nikolaos Karaolidis Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261016102515.111285-1-nick@karaolidis.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) [ sashal: replaced inode_state_set(inode, I_REFERENCED) with inode->i_state |= I_REFERENCED ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- fs/inode.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 7942673f686fd..50f0a5d756bdc 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -502,12 +502,11 @@ static void inode_pin_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) static void inode_unpin_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) { - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + lockdep_assert_held(&inode->i_lock); WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_LRU_ISOLATING)); inode->i_state &= ~I_LRU_ISOLATING; /* Called with inode->i_lock which ensures memory ordering. */ inode_wake_up_bit(inode, __I_LRU_ISOLATING); - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); } static void inode_wait_for_lru_isolating(struct inode *inode) @@ -930,7 +929,13 @@ static enum lru_status inode_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item, __count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap); mm_account_reclaimed_pages(reap); } + + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + /* The walk restarts here: don't retry leftovers right away */ + if (!mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)) + inode->i_state |= I_REFERENCED; inode_unpin_lru_isolating(inode); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_lock(lru_lock); return LRU_RETRY; } -- 2.53.0