The patch titled Subject: madvise:madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is madvise-madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/madvise-madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check.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: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: madvise:madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:13:55 +0800 Patch series "don't use mapcount() to check large folio sharing". In madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() and madvise_free_pte_range(), folio_mapcount() is used to check whether the folio is shared. But it's not correct as folio_mapcount() returns total mapcount of large folio. Use folio_estimated_sharers() here as the estimated number is enough. This patch (of 3): Commit 07e8c82b5eff ("madvise: convert madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() to use folios") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check whether the folio is shared by other mapping. But it's not correct for large folio. folio_mapcount() returns the total mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio is shared. Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares. That means it's not 100% correct. But it should be OK for madvise case here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230728161356.1784568-1-fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230728161356.1784568-2-fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 07e8c82b5eff ("madvise: convert madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() to use folios") Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~madvise-madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_r folio = pfn_folio(pmd_pfn(orig_pmd)); /* Do not interfere with other mappings of this folio */ - if (folio_mapcount(folio) != 1) + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1) goto huge_unlock; if (pageout_anon_only_filter && !folio_test_anon(folio)) @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ regular_folio: if (folio_test_large(folio)) { int err; - if (folio_mapcount(folio) != 1) + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1) break; if (pageout_anon_only_filter && !folio_test_anon(folio)) break; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx are madvise-madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check.patch madvise-madvise_free_huge_pmd-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check.patch madvise-madvise_free_pte_range-dont-use-mapcount-against-large-folio-for-sharing-check.patch