fs: rotate inodes whose page cache could not be dropped

When inode_lru_isolate() drops the page cache of an unused inode, it
has to unlock the list, so it returns LRU_RETRY and the walk restarts
at the head of the list, where the inode still is. If
invalidate_mapping_pages() could not empty the mapping, the restarted
walk strips the same inode again, and so on until nr_to_walk runs out.
Every walk of that list then ends on this inode, and nothing behind it
is reclaimed for as long as its cache stays.

Before commit 2a0629834cd8 ("vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru
traversing context") the walker pinned the inode with a reference, and
dropping it in iput_final() set I_REFERENCED, so the restarted walk
rotated the inode to the tail. Set I_REFERENCED again when the mapping
is still populated after the invalidation, in the same i_lock section
that clears I_LRU_ISOLATING. inode_unpin_lru_isolating() now expects
i_lock to be held, like inode_pin_lru_isolating().

On CONFIG_HIGHMEM kernels this can happen to any unused inode: a folio
is left behind if it is locked, under writeback, spliced into a pipe,
or still in another CPU's LRU-add batch after being read. Without
HIGHMEM it happens to DAX inodes whose only entry is at index 0, which
mapping_shrinkable() lets onto the LRU and invalidate_mapping_pages()
never removes.

Fixes: 2a0629834cd8 ("vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nikolaos Karaolidis <nick@karaolidis.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261016102515.111285-1-nick@karaolidis.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

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