Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > Which reminds me... Why do we handle their reference counts differently? :) > > > > It seems like we could easily put a for loop in delete_from_page_cache() > > that will release their reference counts along with the head page. > > Wouldn't that make the code less special-cased for tail pages? > > delete_from_page_cache() is not the only user of > __delete_from_page_cache()... > > It seems I did it wrong in add_to_page_cache_locked(). We shouldn't take > references on tail pages there, only one on head. On split it will be > distributed properly. This way: diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index b267859..c2c0df2 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1556,6 +1556,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page, struct zone *zone = page_zone(page); struct lruvec *lruvec; int tail_count = 0; + int init_tail_refcount; /* prevent PageLRU to go away from under us, and freeze lru stats */ spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock); @@ -1565,6 +1566,13 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page, /* complete memcg works before add pages to LRU */ mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(page); + /* + * When we add a huge page to page cache we take only reference to head + * page, but on split we need to take addition reference to all tail + * pages since they are still in page cache after splitting. + */ + init_tail_refcount = PageAnon(page) ? 0 : 1; + for (i = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1; i >= 1; i--) { struct page *page_tail = page + i; @@ -1587,8 +1595,9 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page, * atomic_set() here would be safe on all archs (and * not only on x86), it's safer to use atomic_add(). */ - atomic_add(page_mapcount(page) + page_mapcount(page_tail) + 1, - &page_tail->_count); + atomic_add(init_tail_refcount + page_mapcount(page) + + page_mapcount(page_tail) + 1, + &page_tail->_count); /* after clearing PageTail the gup refcount can be released */ smp_mb(); -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>