Re: [PATCH v1] mm: Fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Nov 06 2023 - 14:00:26 EST


On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 10:19:18AM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2740,7 +2740,8 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
> if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
> __lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_SHMEM_THPS,
> -nr);
> - } else {
> + } else if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
> +
> __lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_THPS,
> -nr);
> filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);

Good catch. Two things:

1. No blank line after the 'else if'.

2. We're leaving a bit of a landmine for shmem when it gets support for
arbitrary folio sizes. Really all of this should be under a
test_pmd_mappable.