thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU

Andrea Arcangeli pointed out to me that a check in __memory_failure()
which was intended to prevent THP tail pages from being checked for the
absence of the PG_lru flag (something that is always the case), was also
preventing THP head pages from being checked.

A THP head page could actually benefit from the call to shake_page() by
ending up being put back to a LRU, provided it had been waiting in a
pagevec array.

Andrea suggested that the "!PageTransCompound(p)" in the if-statement
should be replaced by a "!PageTransTail(p)", thus allowing THP head pages
to be checked and possibly shaken.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Cc: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index e90a673be67e..6b25758e028e 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -414,11 +414,26 @@ static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
         return PageHead(page);
 }
 
+/*
+ * PageTransCompound returns true for both transparent huge pages
+ * and hugetlbfs pages, so it should only be called when it's known
+ * that hugetlbfs pages aren't involved.
+ */
 static inline int PageTransCompound(struct page *page)
 {
         return PageCompound(page);
 }
 
+/*
+ * PageTransTail returns true for both transparent huge pages
+ * and hugetlbfs pages, so it should only be called when it's known
+ * that hugetlbfs pages aren't involved.
+ */
+static inline int PageTransTail(struct page *page)
+{
+        return PageTail(page);
+}
+
 #else
 
 static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
@@ -430,6 +445,11 @@ static inline int PageTransCompound(struct page *page)
 {
         return 0;
 }
+
+static inline int PageTransTail(struct page *page)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU