From nobody Mon Apr 6 08:08:42 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21ED9C54EE9 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 01:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229923AbiIIBnB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2022 21:43:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51430 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229577AbiIIBm7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2022 21:42:59 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 637A411EA7C for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 18:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpemm500023.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4MNzDN54cRzlVqy; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 09:39:00 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm100009.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.113) by dggpemm500023.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.83) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 09:42:51 +0800 Received: from huawei.com (10.175.113.32) by dggpemm100009.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.113) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 09:42:51 +0800 From: Liu Shixin To: Andrew Morton , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Andrea Arcangeli CC: , , Liu Shixin , Kefeng Wang Subject: [PATCH v3] mm/huge_memory: prevent THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC increased twice Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 10:16:53 +0800 Message-ID: <20220909021653.3371879-1-liushixin2@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.175.113.32] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.181) To dggpemm100009.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.113) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Since user who read THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC may be more concerned about the huge zero pages that are really allocated using for thp and can indicated the times of calling huge_zero_page_shrinker. It is misleading to increase twice if two threads call get_huge_zero_page concurrently. Don't increase the value if the huge page is not really used. Update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst together. Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin --- v2->v3: Update the commit message. v1->v2: Update documnet. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 7 +++---- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/adm= in-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index c9c37f16eef8..8e3418ec4503 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -366,10 +366,9 @@ thp_split_pmd page table entry. =20 thp_zero_page_alloc - is incremented every time a huge zero page is - successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where - dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count - every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation. + is incremented every time a huge zero page used for thp is + successfully allocated. Note, it doesn't count every map of + the huge zero page, only its allocation. =20 thp_zero_page_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 88d98241a635..5c83a424803a 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ static bool get_huge_zero_page(void) count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED); return false; } - count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC); preempt_disable(); if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_page, NULL, zero_page)) { preempt_enable(); @@ -175,6 +174,7 @@ static bool get_huge_zero_page(void) /* We take additional reference here. It will be put back by shrinker */ atomic_set(&huge_zero_refcount, 2); preempt_enable(); + count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC); return true; } =20 --=20 2.25.1