On 11.07.24 20:56, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 11.07.24 20:54, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 08:24:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
And PG_large_rmappable seems to only be used for hugetlb branches.
It should be set for THP/large folios.
And it's tested too, apparently.
Okay, well, how disappointing is this below? Because I'm running out of
tricks for flag reuse.
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index b9e914e1face..c1ea49a7f198 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ enum pageflags {
PG_workingset,
PG_error,
PG_owner_priv_1, /* Owner use. If pagecache, fs may use*/
+ PG_owner_priv_2,
Oh no, no new page flags please :)
Maybe just follow what Linux suggested: pass vma to pte_dirty() and
always return false for these special VMAs.
... or look into removing that one case that gives us headake.
No idea what would happen if we do the following:
CCing Yu Zhao.
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0761f91b407f..d1dfbd4fd38d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4280,14 +4280,9 @@ static bool sort_folio(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio, struct scan_c
return true;
}
- /* dirty lazyfree */
- if (type == LRU_GEN_FILE && folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
- success = lru_gen_del_folio(lruvec, folio, true);
- VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!success, folio);
- folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
- lruvec_add_folio_tail(lruvec, folio);
- return true;
- }
+ /* lazyfree: we may not be allowed to set swapbacked: MAP_DROPPABLE */
+ if (type == LRU_GEN_FILE && folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_dirty(folio))
+ return false;
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
