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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
	Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
	NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 15:58:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401155808.b91597fbc3c4dd1458c6ad85@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8a8533c-992a-4ac5-a387-3cde8b6e40b5@kernel.org>

On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 10:32:30 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:

> On 4/1/26 09:47, David Carlier wrote:
> > sio_read_complete() uses sio->pages to account global PSWPIN vm events,
> > but sio->pages tracks the number of bvec entries (folios), not base
> > pages.
> > 
> > While large folios cannot currently reach this path (SWP_FS_OPS and
> > SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO are mutually exclusive, and mTHP swap-in allocation
> > is gated on SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO), the accounting is semantically
> > inconsistent with the per-memcg path which correctly uses
> > folio_nr_pages().
> > 
> > Use sio->len >> PAGE_SHIFT instead, which gives the correct base page
> > count since sio->len is accumulated via folio_size(folio).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
> 
> For the next time: Please don't send new revisions as reply to other
> revisions :)

Also, altering the Subject: causes akpm confusion (not hard).  But
having accurate titles is more important than avoiding akpm confusion,
so there is that.

A little "what i changed since v2" note after the "---" separator is
helpful, please.

But I figured it out!   Thanks, I'll pop this into my after-rc1 pile.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-01 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-30  7:12 [PATCH v2] mm/page_io: fix PSWPIN undercount for large folios " David Carlier
2026-03-30 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-31 22:33 ` Barry Song
2026-04-01  7:10   ` David CARLIER
2026-04-01  7:30     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 20:22     ` Barry Song
2026-04-01  7:47 ` [PATCH v3] mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting " David Carlier
2026-04-01  8:32   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 22:58     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-04-01 23:43   ` Barry Song
2026-04-02  3:07   ` Chris Li
2026-04-02  4:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-04-02  5:51     ` Barry Song
2026-04-02  6:01     ` David CARLIER

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