On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:58 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2020 14:38:23 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:11 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 9 May 2020 07:19:46 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Currently, THP are counted as single pages until they are split right
> > > > before being swapped out. However, at that point the VM is already in
> > > > the middle of reclaim, and adjusting the LRU balance then is useless.
> > > >
> > > > Always account THP by the number of basepages, and remove the fixup
> > > > from the splitting path.
> > >
> > > Confused. What kernel is this applicable to?
> >
> > It is still applicable to the latest Linux kernel.
>
> The patch has
>
> > @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> >
> > __count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, nr_pages);
> > __count_memcg_events(lruvec_memcg(lruvec), PGACTIVATE, nr_pages);
> > - update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, 1);
> > + update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, 1, nr_pages);
> > }
> > }
>
> but current mainline is quite different:
>
> static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> void *arg)
> {
> if (PageLRU(page) && !PageActive(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> int file = page_is_file_lru(page);
> int lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
>
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> SetPageActive(page);
> lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
> add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> trace_mm_lru_activate(page);
>
> __count_vm_event(PGACTIVATE);
> update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, 1);
> }
> }
>
> q:/usr/src/linux-5.7-rc5> patch -p1 --dry-run < ~/x.txt
> checking file mm/swap.c
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 288.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 546.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 564.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 590.
> Hunk #6 succeeded at 890 (offset -9 lines).
> Hunk #7 succeeded at 915 (offset -9 lines).
> Hunk #8 succeeded at 958 with fuzz 2 (offset -10 lines).
> 4 out of 8 hunks FAILED
>
Oh sorry my mistake. It is dependent on the first two patches at [1].
Basically I replaced the third patch of the series with this one. I
should have re-send them all together.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508212215.181307-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx
