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mm: fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages 

commit a48d5bdc87 upstream.

While qualifiying the 6.4 release, the following warning was detected in
messages:

vmstat_refresh: nr_file_hugepages -15664

The warning is caused by the incorrect updating of the NR_FILE_THPS
counter in the function split_huge_page_to_list.  The if case is checking
for folio_test_swapbacked, but the else case is missing the check for
folio_test_pmd_mappable.  The other functions that manipulate the counter
like __filemap_add_folio and filemap_unaccount_folio have the
corresponding check.

I have a test case, which reproduces the problem. It can be found here:
  https://github.com/sroeschus/testcase/blob/main/vmstat_refresh/madv.c

The test case reproduces on an XFS filesystem. Running the same test
case on a BTRFS filesystem does not reproduce the problem.

AFAIK version 6.1 until 6.6 are affected by this problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fix]
[shr@devkernel.io: test for folio_test_pmd_mappable()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231108171517.2436103-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106181918.1091043-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Co-debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Stefan Roesch 2023-11-06 10:19:18 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6410614055
commit 7722794344
1 changed files with 9 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -2759,13 +2759,15 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
int nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
xas_split(&xas, folio, folio_order(folio));
if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_SHMEM_THPS,
-nr);
} else {
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_THPS,
-nr);
filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio,
NR_SHMEM_THPS, -nr);
} else {
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio,
NR_FILE_THPS, -nr);
filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
}
}
}