On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 03:25:46PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

If I understand truncate of a shmem THP correctly ...

Let's suppose the file has a single 2MB page at index 0, and is being
truncated down to 7 bytes in size.

shmem_setattr()
  i_size_write(7);
  shmem_truncate_range(7, -1);
    shmem_undo_range(7, -1)
      start = 1;
      page = &head[1];
      shmem_punch_compound();
        split_huge_page()
          end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE); # == 1
          __split_huge_page(..., 1, ...);
            __delete_from_page_cache(&head[1], ...);
      truncate_inode_page(page);
        delete_from_page_cache(page)
          __delete_from_page_cache(&head[1])

I think the solution is to call truncate_inode_page() from within
shmem_punch_compound() if we don't call split_huge_page().  I came across
this while reusing all this infrastructure for the XFS THP patchset,
so I'm not in a great position to test this patch.

Oh, this works for truncate, but not hole-punch.  __split_huge_page()
won't call __delete_from_page_cache() for pages below the end of the
file.  So maybe this instead?

It's a bit cheesy ... maybe split_huge_page() could return 1 to indicate
that it actually disposed of the page passed in?

+++ b/mm/shmem.c

@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static bool shmem_punch_compound(struct page *page, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
                return true;
 
        /* Try to split huge page, so we can truly punch the hole or truncate */
-       return split_huge_page(page) >= 0;
+       return split_huge_page(page) >= 0 && end < -1;
 }
 
 /*