The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/huge_memory: improve split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() return value documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-huge_memory-improve-split_huge_page_to_list_to_order-return-value-documentation.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/huge_memory: improve split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() return value documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:18:34 +0200
The documentation is wrong and relying on it almost resulted in BUGs in
new callers: ever since fd4a7ac32918 ("mm: migrate: try again if THP split
is failed due to page refcnt") we return -EAGAIN on unexpected folio
references, not -EBUSY.
Let's fix that and also document which other return values we can
currently see and why they could happen.
[david@xxxxxxxxxx: v2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240422194217.442933-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240418151834.216557-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-improve-split_huge_page_to_list_to_order-return-value-documentation
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2956,7 +2956,7 @@ bool can_split_folio(struct folio *folio
*
* 3) The folio must not be pinned. Any unexpected folio references, including
* GUP pins, will result in the folio not getting split; instead, the caller
- * will receive an -EBUSY.
+ * will receive an -EAGAIN.
*
* 4) @new_order > 1, usually. Splitting to order-1 anonymous folios is not
* supported for non-file-backed folios, because folio->_deferred_list, which
@@ -2975,8 +2975,16 @@ bool can_split_folio(struct folio *folio
*
* Returns 0 if the huge page was split successfully.
*
- * Returns -EBUSY if @page's folio is pinned, or if the anon_vma disappeared
- * from under us.
+ * Returns -EAGAIN if the folio has unexpected reference (e.g., GUP) or if
+ * the folio was concurrently removed from the page cache.
+ *
+ * Returns -EBUSY when trying to split the huge zeropage, if the folio is
+ * under writeback, if fs-specific folio metadata cannot currently be
+ * released, or if some unexpected race happened (e.g., anon VMA disappeared,
+ * truncation).
+ *
+ * Returns -EINVAL when trying to split to an order that is incompatible
+ * with the folio. Splitting to order 0 is compatible with all folios.
*/
int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
unsigned int new_order)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
