Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: memcontrol: convert NR_FILE_THPS account to pages

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:32 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:29:26PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:09 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 09:02:20PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > Converrt NR_FILE_THPS account to pages.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/base/node.c | 3 +--
> > > >  fs/proc/meminfo.c   | 2 +-
> > > >  mm/filemap.c        | 2 +-
> > > >  mm/huge_memory.c    | 3 ++-
> > > >  mm/khugepaged.c     | 2 +-
> > > >  mm/memcontrol.c     | 5 ++---
> > > >  6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
> > > > index 05c369e93e16..f6a9521bbcf8 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> > > > @@ -466,8 +466,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct device *dev,
> > > >                                   HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> > > >                            nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_SHMEM_PMDMAPPED) *
> > > >                                   HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> > > > -                          nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_THPS) *
> > > > -                                 HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> > > > +                          nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_THPS)),
> > >
> > > Again, is this changing a user-visable value?
> > >
> >
> > Of course not.
> >
> > In the previous, the NR_FILE_THPS account is like below:
> >
> >     __mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_FILE_THPS, 1);
> >
> > With this patch, it is:
> >
> >     __mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_FILE_THPS, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> >
> > So the result is not changed from the view of user space.
>
> So you "broke" it on the previous patch and "fixed" it on this one?  Why
> not just do it all in one patch?

Sorry for the confusion. I mean that the "previous" is without all of this patch
series. So this series is aimed to convert the unit of all different THP vmstat
counters from HPAGE_PMD_NR to pages. Thanks.

>
> Confused,
>
> greg k-h



-- 
Yours,
Muchun



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