mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in non-task context
The following lockdep splat was observed when a certain hugetlbfs test was run: ================================ WARNING: inconsistent lock state 4.18.0-159.el8.x86_64+debug #1 Tainted: G W --------- - - -------------------------------- inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/30/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: ffffffff9acdc038 (hugetlb_lock){+.?.}, at: free_huge_page+0x36f/0xaa0 {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: lock_acquire+0x14f/0x3b0 _raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x70 __nr_hugepages_store_common+0x11b/0xb30 hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0x209/0x2d0 proc_sys_call_handler+0x37f/0x450 vfs_write+0x157/0x460 ksys_write+0xb8/0x170 do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x4d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6a/0xdf irq event stamp: 691296 hardirqs last enabled at (691296): [<ffffffff99bb034b>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x60 hardirqs last disabled at (691295): [<ffffffff99bb0...
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