[RFC] mm/thp: Update mm's MM_ANONPAGES stat in set_huge_zero_page()

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 03:20:01 EST


Although the zero huge page is being shared across various processes, each
mapping needs to update its mm's MM_ANONPAGES stat by HPAGE_PMD_NR in order
to be consistent. This just updates the stats in set_huge_zero_page() after
the mapping gets created.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
---
Should it update MM_SHMEM_PAGES instead ? Applies on latest mainline.

mm/huge_memory.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 63ed6b25deaa..262703304807 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ static void set_huge_zero_page(pgtable_t pgtable, struct mm_struct *mm,
if (pgtable)
pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry);
+ add_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
mm_inc_nr_ptes(mm);
}

--
2.20.1