Commit 98b211d6415f ("madvise: convert madvise_free_pte_range() 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: 98b211d6415f ("madvise: convert madvise_free_pte_range() 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/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 49af35e2d99a..4dded5d27e7e 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, if (folio_test_large(folio)) { int err;
- if (folio_mapcount(folio) != 1) + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1) break; if (!folio_trylock(folio)) break;