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* [PATCH v2] mm: Fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages
@ 2023-11-07 18:18 Stefan Roesch
  2023-11-07 19:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Roesch @ 2023-11-07 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-team; +Cc: shr, akpm, hannes, riel, linux-kernel, linux-mm, stable

While qualifiying the 6.4 release, the following warning was detected in
messages:

vmstat_refresh: nr_file_hugepages -15664

The warning is caused by the incorrect updating of the NR_FILE_THPS
counter in the function split_huge_page_to_list. The if case is checking
for folio_test_swapbacked, but the else case is missing the check for
folio_test_pmd_mappable. The other functions that manipulate the counter
like __filemap_add_folio and filemap_unaccount_folio have the
corresponding check.

I have a test case, which reproduces the problem. It can be found here:
  https://github.com/sroeschus/testcase/blob/main/vmstat_refresh/madv.c

The test case reproduces on an XFS filesystem. Running the same test
case on a BTRFS filesystem does not reproduce the problem.

AFAIK version 6.1 until 6.6 are affected by this problem.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Co-debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 064fbd90822b4..9dbd5ef5a3902 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2740,7 +2740,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 			if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
 				__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_SHMEM_THPS,
 							-nr);
-			} else {
+			} else if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
 				__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_THPS,
 							-nr);
 				filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);

base-commit: ffc253263a1375a65fa6c9f62a893e9767fbebfa
-- 
2.39.3



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