Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: update split_queue_len correctly

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:47 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The deferred THPs are split on memory pressure through shrinker
> callback and splitting of THP during reclaim can fail for several
> reasons like unable to lock the THP, under writeback or unexpected
> number of pins on the THP. Such pages are put back on the deferred split
> list for consideration later. However kernel does not update the
> deferred queue size on putting back the pages whose split was failed.
> This patch fixes that.
>
> Fixes: 364c1eebe453 ("mm: thp: extract split_queue_* into a struct")
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index e5483347291c..4fff9584815b 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2809,7 +2809,7 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
>         unsigned long flags;
>         LIST_HEAD(list), *pos, *next;
>         struct page *page;
> -       int split = 0;
> +       unsigned long split = 0, num = 0;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>         if (sc->memcg)
> @@ -2823,6 +2823,7 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
>                 page = compound_head(page);
>                 if (get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
>                         list_move(page_deferred_list(page), &list);
> +                       num++;

Thanks for catching this. But I don't think "num" is needed, isn't the
below code good enough?

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index e5483347291c..1fbd8299db0c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2847,6 +2847,7 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct
shrinker *shrink,

        spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
        list_splice_tail(&list, &ds_queue->split_queue);
+       ds_queue->split_queue_len -= split;
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);

        /*

>                 } else {
>                         /* We lost race with put_compound_page() */
>                         list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page));
> @@ -2847,6 +2848,7 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
>
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
>         list_splice_tail(&list, &ds_queue->split_queue);
> +       ds_queue->split_queue_len += (num - split);
>         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
>
>         /*
> --
> 2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog
>




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