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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f2858cc92c2c..f8dfd2864bbf 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1197,8 +1197,10 @@ retry:
* 2) Global or new memcg reclaim encounters a folio that is
* not marked for immediate reclaim, or the caller does not
* have __GFP_FS (or __GFP_IO if it's simply going to swap,
- * not to fs). In this case mark the folio for immediate
- * reclaim and continue scanning.
+ * not to fs), or the folio belongs to a mapping where
+ * waiting on writeback during reclaim may lead to a deadlock.
+ * In this case mark the folio for immediate reclaim and
+ * continue scanning.
*
* Require may_enter_fs() because we would wait on fs, which
* may not have submitted I/O yet. And the loop driver might
@@ -1223,6 +1225,8 @@ retry:
* takes to write them to disk.
*/
if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
+ mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
+
/* Case 1 above */
if (current_is_kswapd() &&
folio_test_reclaim(folio) &&
@@ -1233,7 +1237,9 @@ retry:
/* Case 2 above */
} else if (writeback_throttling_sane(sc) ||
!folio_test_reclaim(folio) ||
- !may_enter_fs(folio, sc->gfp_mask)) {
+ !may_enter_fs(folio, sc->gfp_mask) ||
+ (mapping &&
+ mapping_writeback_may_deadlock_on_reclaim(mapping))) {
/*
* This is slightly racy -
* folio_end_writeback() might have