linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] mlock: fix unevictable

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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:45:44 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mlock: fix unevictable_pgs event counts on THP

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:09 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> 5.8 commit 5d91f31faf8e ("mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge page") has
> established that vm_events should count every subpage of a THP,
> including unevictable_pgs_culled and unevictable_pgs_rescued; but
> lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() was not doing so for
> unevictable_pgs_mlocked, and mm/mlock.c was not doing so for
> unevictable_pgs mlocked, munlocked, cleared and stranded.
>
> Fix them; but THPs don't go the pagevec way in mlock.c,
> so no fixes needed on that path.
>
> Fixes: 5d91f31faf8e ("mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge page")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>