Re: [PATCH] mm/thp: decrease nr_thps in file's mapping on THP split

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:47:03PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 12.10.2021 14:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 02:02:37PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Decrease nr_thps counter in file's mapping to ensure that the page cache
> >> won't be dropped excessively on file write access if page has been
> >> already splitted.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> >> Fixes: 09d91cda0e82 ("mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in pagecache")
> >> Fixes: 06d3eff62d9d ("mm/thp: fix node page state in split_huge_page_to_list()")
> >> ---
> >> I've analyzed the code a few times but either I missed something or the
> >> nr_thps counter is not decremented during the THP split on non-shmem file
> >> pages.
> > This looks OK to me, but have you tested it?  If so, what workload did
> > you use?  The way you wrote this changelog makes it sound like you only
> > read the code and there have been rather too many bugs introduced recently
> > that way :-(
> 
> Well, indeed I've found it while reading the code. However I've just 
> tried a test scenario, where one runs a big binary, kernel remaps it 
> with THPs, then one forces THP split with 
> /sys/kernel/debug/split_huge_pages. During any further open of that 
> binary with O_RDWR or O_WRITEONLY kernel drops page cache for it, 
> because of non-zero thps counter.

... and with this patch, it no longer happens?  Good enough for me!

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>