Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: memcontrol: convert NR_FILE_THPS account to pages

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:09 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 09:02:20PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > Converrt NR_FILE_THPS account to pages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/node.c | 3 +--
> >  fs/proc/meminfo.c   | 2 +-
> >  mm/filemap.c        | 2 +-
> >  mm/huge_memory.c    | 3 ++-
> >  mm/khugepaged.c     | 2 +-
> >  mm/memcontrol.c     | 5 ++---
> >  6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
> > index 05c369e93e16..f6a9521bbcf8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> > @@ -466,8 +466,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct device *dev,
> >                                   HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> >                            nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_SHMEM_PMDMAPPED) *
> >                                   HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> > -                          nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_THPS) *
> > -                                 HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> > +                          nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_THPS)),
>
> Again, is this changing a user-visable value?
>

Of course not.

In the previous, the NR_FILE_THPS account is like below:

    __mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_FILE_THPS, 1);

With this patch, it is:

    __mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_FILE_THPS, HPAGE_PMD_NR);

So the result is not changed from the view of user space.

Thanks.

--
Yours,
Muchun