linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/21] mm/hugetlb: correct max_huge

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Message-ID: <c4d40567-6ac6-d822-7098-a5ad1ae567ec@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:26:48 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/21] mm/hugetlb: correct max_huge_pages accounting on
 demote

On 9/14/22 10:23, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 09/13/22 12:54, Doug Berger wrote:
>> When demoting a hugepage to a smaller order, the number of pages
>> added to the target hstate will be the size of the large page
>> divided by the size of the smaller page.
>>
>> Fixes: 8531fc6f52f5 ("hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support")
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> index e070b8593b37..79949893ac12 100644
>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> @@ -3472,7 +3472,8 @@ static int demote_free_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
>>   	 * based on pool changes for the demoted page.
>>   	 */
>>   	h->max_huge_pages--;
>> -	target_hstate->max_huge_pages += pages_per_huge_page(h);
>> +	target_hstate->max_huge_pages += pages_per_huge_page(h) /
>> +					 pages_per_huge_page(target_hstate);
>>   
>>   	return rc;
>>   }
> 
> This has already been fixed here,
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220823030209.57434-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com/
> 

Could we slap the Fixes tag when this Miaohe's patch series gets 
accepted since the offending commit is in v5.16 and beyond. Thanks!
-- 
Florian