Commit fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check whether the folio is shared by other mapping.
It's not correct for large folios. folio_mapcount() returns the total mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio is shared.
Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares. That means it's not 100% correct. It should be OK for madvise case here.
User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise. But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then.
NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects before the long term fix from David is ready.
Fixes: fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei fengwei.yin@intel.com Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 154c210892a1..0b709d2c46c6 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * If other processes are mapping this folio, we couldn't discard * the folio unless they all do MADV_FREE so let's skip the folio. */ - if (folio_mapcount(folio) != 1) + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1) goto out;
if (!folio_trylock(folio))