[PATCH] mm/thp: decrease nr_thps in file's mapping on THP split

From: Marek Szyprowski
Date: Tue Oct 12 2021 - 08:02:55 EST


Decrease nr_thps counter in file's mapping to ensure that the page cache
won't be dropped excessively on file write access if page has been
already splitted.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 09d91cda0e82 ("mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in pagecache")
Fixes: 06d3eff62d9d ("mm/thp: fix node page state in split_huge_page_to_list()")
---
I've analyzed the code a few times but either I missed something or the
nr_thps counter is not decremented during the THP split on non-shmem file
pages.
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index ec2bb93f7431..a6c2ba59abcd 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2709,10 +2709,12 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
}
spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock);
if (mapping) {
- if (PageSwapBacked(head))
+ if (PageSwapBacked(head)) {
__dec_node_page_state(head, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
- else
+ } else {
__dec_node_page_state(head, NR_FILE_THPS);
+ filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
+ }
}

__split_huge_page(page, list, end, flags);
--
2.17.1