Re: [PATCH] mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES accounting in collapse_file()

From: Matthew Wilcox

Date: Thu Jan 29 2026 - 17:49:41 EST


On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 10:40:54AM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")

Are you sure this is the right Fixes? 99cb0dbd47a1 wasn't cgroup
aware:

if (nr_none) {
struct zone *zone = page_zone(new_page);

__mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_FILE_PAGES, nr_none);
- __mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_SHMEM, nr_none);
+ if (is_shmem)
+ __mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat,
+ NR_SHMEM, nr_none);
}

b8eddff8886b added cgroup support:

if (is_shmem)
- __inc_node_page_state(new_page, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
+ __inc_lruvec_page_state(new_page, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
else {
- __inc_node_page_state(new_page, NR_FILE_THPS);
+ __inc_lruvec_page_state(new_page, NR_FILE_THPS);
filemap_nr_thps_inc(mapping);
}

which would seem like the right Fixes: to me?

> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 1d994b6c58c6..1cf8e154e214 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -2200,8 +2200,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> else
> lruvec_stat_mod_folio(new_folio, NR_FILE_THPS, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
>
> + lruvec_stat_mod_folio(new_folio, NR_FILE_PAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> if (nr_none) {
> - lruvec_stat_mod_folio(new_folio, NR_FILE_PAGES, nr_none);
> /* nr_none is always 0 for non-shmem. */
> lruvec_stat_mod_folio(new_folio, NR_SHMEM, nr_none);
> }
> @@ -2238,6 +2238,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> */
> list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, tmp, &pagelist, lru) {
> list_del(&folio->lru);
> + lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_PAGES,
> + -folio_nr_pages(folio));
> folio->mapping = NULL;
> folio_clear_active(folio);
> folio_clear_unevictable(folio);
> --
> 2.47.3
>
>