Re: Multi-page folio issues in 5.19-rc4 (was [PATCH v3 25/25] xfs: Support large folios)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 07:28:20 EST


On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 05:31:20PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> So using this technique, I've discovered that there's a dirty page
> accounting leak that eventually results in fsx hanging in
> balance_dirty_pages().

Alas, I think this is only an accounting error, and not related to
the problem(s) that Darrick & Zorro are seeing. I think what you're
seeing is dirty pages being dropped at truncation without the
appropriate accounting. ie this should be the fix:

+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2443,6 +2443,8 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
__delete_from_page_cache(head + i, NULL);
if (shmem_mapping(head->mapping))
shmem_uncharge(head->mapping->host, 1);
+ else
+ folio_account_cleaned(page_folio(head + i));
put_page(head + i);
} else if (!PageAnon(page)) {
__xa_store(&head->mapping->i_pages, head[i].index,