Although the zero huge page is being shared across various processes, each mapping needs to update its mm's MM_ANONPAGES stat by HPAGE_PMD_NR in order to be consistent. This just updates the stats in set_huge_zero_page() after the mapping gets created. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> --- Should it update MM_SHMEM_PAGES instead ? Applies on latest mainline. mm/huge_memory.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 63ed6b25deaa..262703304807 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ static void set_huge_zero_page(pgtable_t pgtable, struct mm_struct *mm, if (pgtable) pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable); set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry); + add_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR); mm_inc_nr_ptes(mm); } -- 2.20.1