Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix read-only THP for non-tmpfs filesystems

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On Thu,  3 Sep 2020 19:30:26 +0100 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As described more verbosely in the [3/3] changelog, we can
> inadvertently put an order-0 page in the page cache which
> occupies 512 consecutive entries.  Users are running into
> this if they enable the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS config option;
> see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206569
> and Qian Cai has also reported it here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616013309.GB815@xxxxxx/
> 
> This is a rather intrusive way of fixing the problem, but has the
> advantage that I've actually been testing it with the THP patches,
> which means that it sees far more use than it does upstream -- indeed,
> Song has been entirely unable to reproduce it.  It also has the advantage
> that it removes a few patches from my gargantuan backlog of THP patches.

ERROR: modpost: "xa_get_order" [lib/test_xarray.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "xas_split_alloc" [lib/test_xarray.ko] undefined!

xarray is an odd mixture of EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().  I
did this:

--- a/lib/xarray.c~xarray-add-xas_split-fix
+++ a/lib/xarray.c
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ nomem:
 	xas_destroy(xas);
 	xas_set_err(xas, -ENOMEM);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xas_split_alloc);
 
 /**
  * xas_split() - Split a multi-index entry into smaller entries.
_

and

--- a/lib/xarray.c~xarray-add-xa_get_order-fix
+++ a/lib/xarray.c
@@ -1631,6 +1631,7 @@ unlock:
 
 	return order;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xa_get_order);
 #endif /* CONFIG_XARRAY_MULTI */
 
 /**
_





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