Re: [PATCH v5 10/12] mm/gup: /proc/vmstat: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN) reporting

From: John Hubbard
Date: Mon Feb 10 2020 - 12:10:17 EST


On 2/10/20 2:16 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
On Thu 06-02-20 19:37:33, John Hubbard wrote:
@@ -2258,6 +2268,8 @@ static int record_subpages(struct page *page, unsigned long addr,
static void put_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
{
+ int orig_refs = refs;
+
if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
if (hpage_pincount_available(page))
hpage_pincount_sub(page, refs);
@@ -2273,6 +2285,8 @@ static void put_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
if (refs > 1)
page_ref_sub(page, refs - 1);
put_page(page);
+
+ mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED, orig_refs);
}

Still not quite happy about this :) Now you update NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED
even if 'flags' don't have FOLL_PIN set. You need to have the
mod_node_page_state() inside the "if (flags & FOLL_PIN)" branch above...

Honza

Arggh, yes that's true. Thanks for catching that, will fix in v6.


thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA