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Yin Fengwei 63f2301775 madvise:madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check 
commit 2f406263e3 upstream.

Patch series "don't use mapcount() to check large folio sharing", v2.

In madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() and madvise_free_pte_range(),
folio_mapcount() is used to check whether the folio is shared.  But it's
not correct as folio_mapcount() returns total mapcount of large folio.

Use folio_estimated_sharers() here as the estimated number is enough.

This patchset will fix the cases:
User space application call madvise() with MADV_FREE, MADV_COLD and
MADV_PAGEOUT for specific address range. There are THP mapped to the
range. Without the patchset, the THP is skipped. With the patch, the
THP will be split and handled accordingly.

David reported the cow self test skip some cases because of MADV_PAGEOUT
skip THP:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/9e92e42d-488f-47db-ac9d-75b24cd0d037@intel.com/T/#mbf0f2ec7fbe45da47526de1d7036183981691e81
and I confirmed this patchset make it work again.


This patch (of 3):

Commit 07e8c82b5e ("madvise: convert madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()
to use folios") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to
check whether the folio is shared by other mapping.

It's not correct for large folio.  folio_mapcount() returns the total
mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio
is shared.

Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares.
That means it's not 100% correct.  It should be OK for madvise case here.

User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise.
But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then.

NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects
before the long term fix from David is ready.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808020917.2230692-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808020917.2230692-2-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Fixes: 07e8c82b5e ("madvise: convert madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() to use folios")
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-08-30 14:52:42 +02:00
arch riscv: Fix build errors using binutils2.37 toolchains 2023-08-30 14:52:41 +02:00
block blk-crypto: dynamically allocate fallback profile 2023-08-23 17:32:53 +02:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: jitter - correct health test during initialization 2023-07-19 16:36:19 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom,sa8775p-tlmm: add gpio function constant 2023-08-23 17:32:53 +02:00
drivers drm/i915: Fix error handling if driver creation fails during probe 2023-08-30 14:52:42 +02:00
fs nfsd: Fix race to FREE_STATEID and cl_revoked 2023-08-30 14:52:40 +02:00
include cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails 2023-08-30 14:52:39 +02:00
init init, x86: Move mem_encrypt_init() into arch_cpu_finalize_init() 2023-08-08 20:04:49 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: correct check for O_TMPFILE 2023-08-16 18:32:19 +02:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails 2023-08-30 14:52:39 +02:00
lib radix tree: remove unused variable 2023-08-30 14:52:41 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm madvise:madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check 2023-08-30 14:52:42 +02:00
net can: raw: add missing refcount for memory leak fix 2023-08-30 14:52:42 +02:00
rust rust: macros: vtable: fix HAS_* redefinition (gen_const_name) 2023-08-23 17:32:36 +02:00
samples samples: ftrace: Save required argument registers in sample trampolines 2023-07-23 13:54:09 +02:00
scripts kbuild: rust: avoid creating temporary files 2023-07-27 08:57:06 +02:00
security selinux: set next pointer before attaching to list 2023-08-30 14:52:40 +02:00
sound ALSA: ymfpci: Fix the missing snd_card_free() call at probe error 2023-08-30 14:52:36 +02:00
tools selftests/mm: FOLL_LONGTERM need to be updated to 0x100 2023-08-30 14:52:36 +02:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Grab a reference to KVM for VM and vCPU stats file descriptors 2023-08-03 10:26:01 +02:00
.clang-format cxl for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:51:51 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore linux-kselftest-kunit-6.4-rc1 2023-04-24 12:31:32 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Ben Dooks 2023-06-19 13:19:35 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 6.4-rc8, including fixes from ipsec, bpf, 2023-06-22 17:59:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4.12 2023-08-23 17:32:56 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.