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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst index a2cd8800d527..0e7f8e4cd2e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -116,14 +116,27 @@ pages: succeeds on tail pages. - map/unmap of a PMD entry for the whole THP increment/decrement - folio->_entire_mapcount, increment/decrement folio->_large_mapcount - and also increment/decrement folio->_nr_pages_mapped by ENTIRELY_MAPPED - when _entire_mapcount goes from -1 to 0 or 0 to -1. + folio->_entire_mapcount and folio->_large_mapcount. + + We also maintain the two slots for tracking MM owners (MM ID and + corresponding mapcount), and the current status ("maybe mapped shared" vs. + "mapped exclusively"). + + With CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, we also increment/decrement + folio->_nr_pages_mapped by ENTIRELY_MAPPED when _entire_mapcount goes + from -1 to 0 or 0 to -1. - map/unmap of individual pages with PTE entry increment/decrement - page->_mapcount, increment/decrement folio->_large_mapcount and also - increment/decrement folio->_nr_pages_mapped when page->_mapcount goes - from -1 to 0 or 0 to -1 as this counts the number of pages mapped by PTE. + folio->_large_mapcount. + + We also maintain the two slots for tracking MM owners (MM ID and + corresponding mapcount), and the current status ("maybe mapped shared" vs. + "mapped exclusively"). + + With CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, we also increment/decrement + page->_mapcount and increment/decrement folio->_nr_pages_mapped when + page->_mapcount goes from -1 to 0 or 0 to -1 as this counts the number + of pages mapped by PTE. split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head page to the tail pages before clearing all PG_head/tail bits from the page @@ -151,8 +164,8 @@ clear where references should go after split: it will stay on the head page. Note that split_huge_pmd() doesn't have any limitations on refcounting: pmd can be split at any point and never fails. -Partial unmap and deferred_split_folio() -======================================== +Partial unmap and deferred_split_folio() (anon THP only) +======================================================== Unmapping part of THP (with munmap() or other way) is not going to free memory immediately. Instead, we detect that a subpage of THP is not in use @@ -167,3 +180,13 @@ a THP crosses a VMA boundary. The function deferred_split_folio() is used to queue a folio for splitting. The splitting itself will happen when we get memory pressure via shrinker interface. + +With CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, we reliably detect partial mappings based on +folio->_nr_pages_mapped. + +With CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, we detect partial mappings based on the +average per-page mapcount in a THP: if the average is < 1, an anon THP is +certainly partially mapped. As long as only a single process maps a THP, +this detection is reliable. With long-running child processes, there can +be scenarios where partial mappings can currently not be detected, and +might need asynchronous detection during memory reclaim in the future. |