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NR_FILE_MAPPED accounting in mm/rmap.c (for /proc/meminfo "Mapped" and /proc/vmstat "nr_mapped" and the memcg's memory.stat "mapped_file") is slightly flawed for file or shmem huge pages. It is well thought out, and looks convincing, but there's a racy case when the careful counting in page_remove_file_rmap() (without page lock) gets discarded. So that in a workload like two "make -j20" kernel builds under memory pressure, with cc1 on hugepage text, "Mapped" can easily grow by a spurious 5MB or more on each iteration, ending up implausibly bigger than most other numbers in /proc/meminfo. And, hypothetically, might grow to the point of seriously interfering in mm/vmscan.c's heuristics, which do take NR_FILE_MAPPED into some consideration. Fixed by moving the __mod_lruvec_page_state() down to where it will not be missed before return (and I've grown a bit tired of that oft-repeated but-not-everywhere comment on the __ness: it gets lost in the move here). Does page_add_file_rmap() need the same change? I suspect not, because page lock is held in all relevant cases, and its skipping case looks safe; but it's much easier to be sure, if we do make the same change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e02e52a1-8550-a57c-ed29-f51191ea2375@google.com Fixes: dd78fedde4b9 ("rmap: support file thp") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.