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-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c11
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index ca96f411b034..f97d709594e6 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1473,6 +1473,8 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
*/
ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, 0);
if (!PageLRU(page)) {
+ /* Drop page reference which is from __get_any_page() */
+ put_page(page);
pr_info("soft_offline: %#lx: unknown non LRU page type %lx\n",
pfn, page->flags);
return -EIO;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 13a4a39a1f4b..95c40daa21f2 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -773,20 +773,15 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
* could easily OOM just because too many pages are in
* writeback and there is nothing else to reclaim.
*
- * Check __GFP_IO, certainly because a loop driver
+ * Require may_enter_fs to wait on writeback, because
+ * fs may not have submitted IO yet. And a loop driver
* thread might enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits
* on a page for which it is needed to do the write
* (loop masks off __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason);
* but more thought would probably show more reasons.
- *
- * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into
- * the FS, just waiting on its writeback completion.
- * Worryingly, ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
- * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so
- * testing may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
*/
if (global_reclaim(sc) ||
- !PageReclaim(page) || !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
+ !PageReclaim(page) || !may_enter_fs) {
/*
* This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
* might have just cleared PageReclaim, then