Re: [v2 PATCH] mm: thp: check total_mapcount instead of page_mapcount

[Zi Yan]

On 13 May 2021, at 17:23, Yang Shi wrote:

> When debugging the bug reported by Wang Yugui [1], try_to_unmap() may
> return false positive for PTE-mapped THP since page_mapcount() is used
> to check if the THP is unmapped, but it just checks compound mapount and
> head page's mapcount.  If the THP is PTE-mapped and head page is not
> mapped, it may return false positive.
>
> Use total_mapcount() instead of page_mapcount() for try_to_unmap() and
> do so for the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in split_huge_page_to_list as well.
>
> This changed the semantic of try_to_unmap(), but I don't see there is
> any usecase that expects try_to_unmap() just unmap one subpage of a huge
> page.  So using page_mapcount() seems like a bug.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210412180659.B9E3.409509F4@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Removed dead code and updated the comment of try_to_unmap() per Zi
>     Yan.
>
>  mm/huge_memory.c | 11 +----------
>  mm/rmap.c        | 10 ++++++----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

LGTM. Thanks. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Best Regards,
Yan Zi

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