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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2022-03-25 04:09:55 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-25 05:06:45 +0300 |
commit | 5d543f13e2f5580828de885c751d68a35b6a493d (patch) | |
tree | 76ffb8f951939c74e83310670892a7dcb189ccc1 /arch/powerpc/mm | |
parent | 85207ad8ea21156387fd0273e5360189df163661 (diff) | |
download | linux-5d543f13e2f5580828de885c751d68a35b6a493d.tar.xz |
mm/thp: fix NR_FILE_MAPPED accounting in page_*_file_rmap()
NR_FILE_MAPPED accounting in mm/rmap.c (for /proc/meminfo "Mapped" and
/proc/vmstat "nr_mapped" and the memcg's memory.stat "mapped_file") is
slightly flawed for file or shmem huge pages.
It is well thought out, and looks convincing, but there's a racy case when
the careful counting in page_remove_file_rmap() (without page lock) gets
discarded. So that in a workload like two "make -j20" kernel builds under
memory pressure, with cc1 on hugepage text, "Mapped" can easily grow by a
spurious 5MB or more on each iteration, ending up implausibly bigger than
most other numbers in /proc/meminfo. And, hypothetically, might grow to
the point of seriously interfering in mm/vmscan.c's heuristics, which do
take NR_FILE_MAPPED into some consideration.
Fixed by moving the __mod_lruvec_page_state() down to where it will not be
missed before return (and I've grown a bit tired of that oft-repeated
but-not-everywhere comment on the __ness: it gets lost in the move here).
Does page_add_file_rmap() need the same change? I suspect not, because
page lock is held in all relevant cases, and its skipping case looks safe;
but it's much easier to be sure, if we do make the same change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e02e52a1-8550-a57c-ed29-f51191ea2375@google.com
Fixes: dd78fedde4b9 ("rmap: support file thp")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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