Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 5 authors, 2016-10-26

[PATCHv4 12/43] truncate: make sure invalidate_mapping_pages() can discard huge pages

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-25 00:13:11
Also in: linux-block, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, page cache, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Matthew Wilcox, Linus Torvalds

invalidate_inode_page() has expectation about page_count() of the page
-- if it's not 2 (one to caller, one to radix-tree), it will not be
dropped. That condition almost never met for THPs -- tail pages are
pinned to the pagevec.

Let's drop them, before calling invalidate_inode_page().

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
---
 mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index a01cce450a26..393bf9447231 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -504,10 +504,22 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 				/* 'end' is in the middle of THP */
 				if (index ==  round_down(end, HPAGE_PMD_NR))
 					continue;
+				/*
+				 * invalidate_inode_page() expects
+				 * page_count(page) == 2 to drop page from page
+				 * cache -- drop tail pages references.
+				 */
+				get_page(page);
+				pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
+				pagevec_release(&pvec);
 			}
 
 			ret = invalidate_inode_page(page);
 			unlock_page(page);
+
+			if (PageTransHuge(page))
+				put_page(page);
+
 			/*
 			 * Invalidation is a hint that the page is no longer
 			 * of interest and try to speed up its reclaim.
-- 
2.9.3

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