On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 12:58:33PM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> Hi Pankaj,
>
> Can you use ziy@xxxxxxxxxx instead of zi.yan@xxxxxxxx? Since I just use the latter
> to send patches. Thanks.
Got it!
>
> On 7 Jun 2024, at 10:58, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
>
> > From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > split_folio() and split_folio_to_list() assume order 0, to support
> > minorder for non-anonymous folios, we must expand these to check the
> > folio mapping order and use that.
> >
> > Set new_order to be at least minimum folio order if it is set in
> > split_huge_page_to_list() so that we can maintain minimum folio order
> > requirement in the page cache.
> >
> > Update the debugfs write files used for testing to ensure the order
> > is respected as well. We simply enforce the min order when a file
> > mapping is used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/huge_mm.h | 14 ++++++++---
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > +int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
> > +{
> > + unsigned int min_order = 0;
> > +
> > + if (!folio_test_anon(folio)) {
> > + if (!folio->mapping) {
> > + count_vm_event(THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED);
>
> You should only increase this counter when the input folio is a THP, namely
> folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) is true. For other large folios, we will
> need a separate counter. Something like MTHP_STAT_FILE_SPLIT_FAILED.
> See enum mthp_stat_item in include/linux/huge_mm.h.
>
Hmm, but we don't have mTHP support for non-anonymous memory right? In
that case it won't be applicable for file backed memory?
I am not an expert there so correct me if I am wrong.
--
Regards,
Pankaj
