The patch titled Subject: mm/thp: simplify lru_add_page_tail() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/thp: simplify lru_add_page_tail() Simplify lru_add_page_tail(), there are actually only two cases possible: split_huge_page_to_list(), with list supplied and head isolated from lru by its caller; or split_huge_page(), with NULL list and head on lru - because when head is racily isolated from lru, the isolator's reference will stop the split from getting any further than its page_ref_freeze(). So decide between the two cases by "list", but add VM_WARN_ON()s to verify that they match our lru expectations. [Hugh Dickins: rewrite commit log] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 20 ++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2353,24 +2353,16 @@ static void lru_add_page_tail(struct pag VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(tail), head); lockdep_assert_held(&lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->lru_lock); - if (!list) - SetPageLRU(tail); - - if (likely(PageLRU(head))) - list_add_tail(&tail->lru, &head->lru); - else if (list) { + if (list) { /* page reclaim is reclaiming a huge page */ + VM_WARN_ON(PageLRU(head)); get_page(tail); list_add_tail(&tail->lru, list); } else { - /* - * Head page has not yet been counted, as an hpage, - * so we must account for each subpage individually. - * - * Put tail on the list at the correct position - * so they all end up in order. - */ - add_page_to_lru_list_tail(tail, lruvec, page_lru(tail)); + /* head is still on lru (and we have it frozen) */ + VM_WARN_ON(!PageLRU(head)); + SetPageLRU(tail); + list_add_tail(&tail->lru, &head->lru); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-filemap-add-static-for-function-__add_to_page_cache_locked.patch fs-ntfs-remove-unused-varibles.patch fs-ntfs-remove-unused-varible-attr_len.patch mm-memcg-update-page-struct-member-in-comments.patch mm-thp-move-lru_add_page_tail-func-to-huge_memoryc.patch mm-thp-use-head-for-head-page-in-lru_add_page_tail.patch mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail.patch mm-thp-narrow-lru-locking.patch mm-vmscan-remove-unnecessary-lruvec-adding.patch mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapping.patch mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapping-fix.patch mm-memcg-add-debug-checking-in-lock_page_memcg.patch mm-swapc-fold-vm-event-pgrotated-into-pagevec_move_tail_fn.patch mm-lru-move-lock-into-lru_note_cost.patch mm-vmscan-remove-lruvec-reget-in-move_pages_to_lru.patch mm-mlock-remove-lru_lock-on-testclearpagemlocked.patch mm-mlock-remove-__munlock_isolate_lru_page.patch mm-lru-introduce-testclearpagelru.patch mm-compaction-do-page-isolation-first-in-compaction.patch mm-swapc-serialize-memcg-changes-in-pagevec_lru_move_fn.patch mm-lru-replace-pgdat-lru_lock-with-lruvec-lock.patch mm-lru-replace-pgdat-lru_lock-with-lruvec-lock-fix.patch mm-lru-replace-pgdat-lru_lock-with-lruvec-lock-fix-2.patch mm-lru-introduce-the-relock_page_lruvec-function-fix.patch docs-vm-remove-unused-3-items-explanation-for-proc-vmstat.patch mm-memcg-bail-early-from-swap-accounting-if-memcg-disabled.patch mm-memcg-warning-on-memcg-after-readahead-page-charged.patch