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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:38:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

References: VM Performance filemap (bsc#1121581)
Patch-mainline: v5.0
Git-commit: e0975b2aae0e669f995f7d5f11db25c3080ae11c

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range
before it tries to lock that page.  While this is correct it also can
influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated
reference count.  The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page
so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before
page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count
churn.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211142741.2607-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 162c940910d4..8c42cebe54d3 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2639,6 +2639,13 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 		}
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
+
+		/*
+		 * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+		 * reference may adversely influence page migration.
+		 */
+		if (PageLocked(head))
+			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
 			goto repeat;