Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: shmem: avoid allocating huge pages larger than MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER for shmem

[Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>]

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On 31 Jul 2024, at 1:46, Baolin Wang wrote:

> Similar to commit d659b715e94ac ("mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache
> if needed"), ARM64 can support 512MB PMD-sized THP when the base page size is
> 64KB, which is larger than the maximum supported page cache size MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER.
> This is not expected. To fix this issue, use THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT for
> shmem to filter allowable huge orders.
>
> Fixes: e7a2ab7b3bb5 ("mm: shmem: add mTHP support for anonymous shmem")
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  mm/shmem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 2faa9daaf54b..a4332a97558c 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1630,10 +1630,10 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_orders(struct inode *inode,
>  	unsigned long within_size_orders = READ_ONCE(huge_shmem_orders_within_size);
>  	unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
>  	/*
> -	 * Check all the (large) orders below HPAGE_PMD_ORDER + 1 that
> +	 * Check all the (large) orders below MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER + 1 that
>  	 * are enabled for this vma.
>  	 */
> -	unsigned long orders = BIT(PMD_ORDER + 1) - 1;
> +	unsigned long orders = THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT;
>  	loff_t i_size;
>  	int order;

Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi

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