Re: [PATCH 02/21] mm/hugetlb: correct max_huge_pages accounting on demote

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On 09/14/22 10:26, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 9/14/22 10:23, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > On 09/13/22 12:54, Doug Berger wrote:
> > > When demoting a hugepage to a smaller order, the number of pages
> > > added to the target hstate will be the size of the large page
> > > divided by the size of the smaller page.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 8531fc6f52f5 ("hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support")
> > > Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++-
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > > index e070b8593b37..79949893ac12 100644
> > > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > > @@ -3472,7 +3472,8 @@ static int demote_free_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
> > >   	 * based on pool changes for the demoted page.
> > >   	 */
> > >   	h->max_huge_pages--;
> > > -	target_hstate->max_huge_pages += pages_per_huge_page(h);
> > > +	target_hstate->max_huge_pages += pages_per_huge_page(h) /
> > > +					 pages_per_huge_page(target_hstate);
> > >   	return rc;
> > >   }
> > 
> > This has already been fixed here,
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220823030209.57434-2-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> 
> Could we slap the Fixes tag when this Miaohe's patch series gets accepted
> since the offending commit is in v5.16 and beyond. Thanks!

We could.  However, this fix/change does not really have any impact on
the way code functions (unless I am mistaken).  See my analysis at,

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YvwfvxXewnZpHQcz@monkey/

-- 
Mike Kravetz



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