Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/migrate: exclude hugetlb folios from MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON accounting

From: Baolin Wang

Date: Fri Jul 17 2026 - 06:17:42 EST




On 7/17/26 2:45 PM, Nico Pache wrote:
__folio_migrate_mapping() increments MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON for the
destination folio when `folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio)`
is true. However, hugetlb folios satisfy both conditions despite having a
completely separate accounting system — they use hugetlb_add_anon_rmap()
which does not touch mTHP stats, and their free path also bypasses the
mTHP decrement in __free_pages_prepare().

This causes MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON to be incremented on each hugetlb
migration without a corresponding decrement, permanently inflating the
nr_anon counter.

Add a !folio_test_hugetlb() check to __folio_migrate_mapping() so that
only actual mTHP folios are counted.

Fixes: 5d65c8d758f2 ("mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size")
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx>
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LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>