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authorYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>2019-07-19 01:57:27 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-19 03:08:06 +0300
commitc06306696f8368b08774e2a743dbc52d92a61693 (patch)
tree2aecc465f56501c3a42457f43e3b33b97598b50f /Documentation
parent43675e6fbbeadca90c6c5031557ff95e217e6d2f (diff)
downloadlinux-c06306696f8368b08774e2a743dbc52d92a61693.tar.xz
mm: thp: fix false negative of shmem vma's THP eligibility
Commit 7635d9cbe832 ("mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each vma") introduced THPeligible bit for processes' smaps. But, when checking the eligibility for shmem vma, __transparent_hugepage_enabled() is called to override the result from shmem_huge_enabled(). It may result in the anonymous vma's THP flag override shmem's. For example, running a simple test which create THP for shmem, but with anonymous THP disabled, when reading the process's smaps, it may show: 7fc92ec00000-7fc92f000000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 27764 /dev/shm/test Size: 4096 kB ... [snip] ... ShmemPmdMapped: 4096 kB ... [snip] ... THPeligible: 0 And, /proc/meminfo does show THP allocated and PMD mapped too: ShmemHugePages: 4096 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 4096 kB This doesn't make too much sense. The shmem objects should be treated separately from anonymous THP. Calling shmem_huge_enabled() with checking MMF_DISABLE_THP sounds good enough. And, we could skip stack and dax vma check since we already checked if the vma is shmem already. Also check if vma is suitable for THP by calling transhuge_vma_suitable(). And minor fix to smaps output format and documentation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560401041-32207-3-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 7635d9cbe832 ("mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each vma") Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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@@ -486,8 +486,8 @@ replaced by copy-on-write) part of the underlying shmem object out on swap.
"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping. Unlike "Swap", this
does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects.
"Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
-"THPeligible" indicates whether the mapping is eligible for THP pages - 1 if
-true, 0 otherwise.
+"THPeligible" indicates whether the mapping is eligible for allocating THP
+pages - 1 if true, 0 otherwise. It just shows the current status.
"VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel
flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter encoded