linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix judgment error in shmem_is

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Date:   Thu, 9 Sep 2021 10:39:19 +0800
From:   Liu Yuntao <liuyuntao10@...wei.com>
To:     <kirill@...temov.name>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <hughd@...gle.com>,
        <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <liusirui@...wei.com>,
        <liuyuntao10@...wei.com>, <windspectator@...il.com>,
        <wuxu.wu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix judgment error in shmem_is_huge()

On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 17:58:44 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 06:26:48PM +0800, Liu Yuntao wrote:
> > In the case of SHMEM_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE, the page index is not rounded
> > up correctly. When the page index points to the first page in a huge
> > page, round_up() cannot bring it to the end of the huge page, but
> > to the end of the previous one.
> > 
> > an example:
> > HPAGE_PMD_NR on my machine is 512(2 MB huge page size).
> > After allcoating a 3000 KB buffer, I access it at location 2050 KB.
> > In shmem_is_huge(), the corresponding index happens to be 512.
> > After rounded up by HPAGE_PMD_NR, it will still be 512 which is
> > smaller than i_size, and shmem_is_huge() will return true.
> > As a result, my buffer takes an additional huge page, and that
> > shouldn't happen when shmem_enabled is set to within_size.
> > 
> > Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b2b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Yuntao <liuyuntao10@...wei.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> > index 88742953532c..5747572859d1 100644
> > --- a/mm/shmem.c
> > +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> > @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ bool shmem_is_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >  	case SHMEM_HUGE_ALWAYS:
> >  		return true;
> >  	case SHMEM_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE:
> > -		index = round_up(index, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> > +		index = round_up(index + 1, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> >  		i_size = round_up(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);
> >  		if (i_size >= HPAGE_PMD_SIZE && (i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) >= index)
> 
> With the change, the condition can be simplified to
> 
> 		if (i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT >= index)
> 
> right?

Yes, will add it.

> 
> >  			return true;
> > -- 
> > 2.23.0
> > 
> 
> -- 
>  Kirill A. Shutemov