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Message-ID: <156032532526.2193.13029744217391066047@skylake-alporthouse-com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:42:05 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] page cache: Store only head pages in i_pages

Quoting Kirill A. Shutemov (2019-06-12 02:46:34)
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Matthew Wilcox (2019-03-07 15:30:51)
> > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > index 404acdcd0455..aaf88f85d492 100644
> > > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > @@ -2456,6 +2456,9 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
> > >                         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && PageSwapBacked(head))
> > >                                 shmem_uncharge(head->mapping->host, 1);
> > >                         put_page(head + i);
> > > +               } else if (!PageAnon(page)) {
> > > +                       __xa_store(&head->mapping->i_pages, head[i].index,
> > > +                                       head + i, 0);
> > 
> > Forgiving the ignorant copy'n'paste, this is required:
> > 
> > +               } else if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
> > +                       swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head + i) };
> > +                       __xa_store(&swap_address_space(entry)->i_pages,
> > +                                  swp_offset(entry),
> > +                                  head + i, 0);
> >                 }
> >         }
> >  
> > The locking is definitely wrong.
> 
> Does it help with the problem, or it's just a possible lead?

It definitely solves the problem we encountered of the bad VM_PAGE
leading to RCU stalls in khugepaged. The locking is definitely wrong
though :)
-Chris