[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-fix-for-negative-counter-nr_file_hugepages.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-fix-for-negative-counter-nr_file_hugepages.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-fix-for-negative-counter-nr_file_hugepages.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Subject: mm: fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:19:18 -0800

While qualifiying the 6.4 release, the following warning was detected in
messages:

vmstat_refresh: nr_file_hugepages -15664

The warning is caused by the incorrect updating of the NR_FILE_THPS
counter in the function split_huge_page_to_list.  The if case is checking
for folio_test_swapbacked, but the else case is missing the check for
folio_test_pmd_mappable.  The other functions that manipulate the counter
like __filemap_add_folio and filemap_unaccount_folio have the
corresponding check.

I have a test case, which reproduces the problem. It can be found here:
  https://github.com/sroeschus/testcase/blob/main/vmstat_refresh/madv.c

The test case reproduces on an XFS filesystem. Running the same test
case on a BTRFS filesystem does not reproduce the problem.

AFAIK version 6.1 until 6.6 are affected by this problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fix]
[shr@devkernel.io: test for folio_test_pmd_mappable()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231108171517.2436103-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106181918.1091043-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Co-debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/huge_memory.c |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-fix-for-negative-counter-nr_file_hugepages
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2769,13 +2769,15 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page
 			int nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
 
 			xas_split(&xas, folio, folio_order(folio));
-			if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
-				__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_SHMEM_THPS,
-							-nr);
-			} else {
-				__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_THPS,
-							-nr);
-				filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
+			if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
+				if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) {
+					__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio,
+							NR_SHMEM_THPS, -nr);
+				} else {
+					__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio,
+							NR_FILE_THPS, -nr);
+					filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from shr@devkernel.io are