The patch titled Subject: mm/huge_memory: prevent THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC increased twice has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-huge_memory-prevent-thp_zero_page_alloc-increased-twice.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-huge_memory-prevent-thp_zero_page_alloc-increased-twice.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/huge_memory: prevent THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC increased twice Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:38:13 +0800 If two or more threads call get_huge_zero_page concurrently, THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC may increased two or more times. But actually, this should only count as once since the extra zero pages has been freed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220905133813.2253703-1-liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-prevent-thp_zero_page_alloc-increased-twice +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ retry: count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED); return false; } - count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC); preempt_disable(); if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_page, NULL, zero_page)) { preempt_enable(); @@ -175,6 +174,7 @@ retry: /* We take additional reference here. It will be put back by shrinker */ atomic_set(&huge_zero_refcount, 2); preempt_enable(); + count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC); return true; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx are revert-frontswap-remove-support-for-multiple-ops.patch revert-mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static.patch revert-frontswap-simplify-frontswap_register_ops.patch mm-zswap-replace-zswap_init_started-failed-with-zswap_init_state.patch mm-zswap-delay-the-initializaton-of-zswap-until-the-first-enablement.patch mm-zswap-skip-confusing-print-info.patch mm-thp-simplify-has_transparent_hugepage-by-using-is_builtin.patch mm-thp-remove-redundant-config_transparent_hugepage.patch mm-kmemleak-make-create_object-return-void.patch mm-huge_memory-prevent-thp_zero_page_alloc-increased-twice.patch