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madvise:madvise_free_huge_pmd(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check
Commit fc986a3 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check whether the folio is shared by other mapping. It's not correct for large folios. 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. It should be OK for madvise case here. User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise. But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then. NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects before the long term fix from David is ready. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: fc986a3 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio") Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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mm/huge_memory.c

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@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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* If other processes are mapping this folio, we couldn't discard
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* the folio unless they all do MADV_FREE so let's skip the folio.
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*/
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if (folio_mapcount(folio) != 1)
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if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1)
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goto out;
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if (!folio_trylock(folio))

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