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authorRoman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>2025-10-06 20:51:06 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-11-17 04:27:56 +0300
commit9f1edf1aedac1b287355f63f768ba4275de72dca (patch)
tree8cfdfa10055331fb702b5021342e549c20907552 /include/linux
parentc0efdb373c3aaacb32db59cadb0710cac13e44ae (diff)
downloadlinux-9f1edf1aedac1b287355f63f768ba4275de72dca.tar.xz
mm: readahead: make thp readahead conditional to mmap_miss logic
Commit 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings") introduced a special handling for VM_HUGEPAGE mappings: even if the readahead is disabled, 1 or 2 HPAGE_PMD_ORDER pages are allocated. This change causes a significant regression for containers with a tight memory.max limit, if VM_HUGEPAGE is widely used. Prior to this commit, mmap_miss logic would eventually lead to the readahead disablement, effectively reducing the memory pressure in the cgroup. With this change the kernel is trying to allocate 1-2 huge pages for each fault, no matter if these pages are used or not before being evicted, increasing the memory pressure multi-fold. To fix the regression, let's make the new VM_HUGEPAGE conditional to the mmap_miss check, but keep independent from the ra->ra_pages. This way the main intention of commit 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings") stays intact, but the regression is resolved. The logic behind this changes is simple: even if a user explicitly requests using huge pages to back the file mapping (using VM_HUGEPAGE flag), under a very strong memory pressure it's better to fall back to ordinary pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251006175106.377411-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Fixes: 4687fdbb805a ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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