linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/16] page-flags: define behavior of FS/IO-related flags on compound pages

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] page-flags: define behavior of FS/IO-related flags
 on compound pages

On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> We only need tail refcounting for THP, so I think this should fix the issue:
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 4a3a38522ab4..9ab432660adb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ static inline int page_count(struct page *page)
>  
>  static inline bool __compound_tail_refcounted(struct page *page)
>  {
> -       return !PageSlab(page) && !PageHeadHuge(page);
> +       return !PageSlab(page) && !PageHeadHuge(page) && PageAnon(page);
>  }
>  
>  /*

Yes, that should be a good fix for the mapcount issue.
And no coincidence that it's just what I needed too,
when reusing the PG_compound_lock bit: see my 10/24
(which had to rearrange mm.h. not having your 1/16).

Hugh
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