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Commit 613bec09 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by akpm
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mm: mmap: register suitable readonly file vmas for khugepaged



The readonly FS THP relies on khugepaged to collapse THP for suitable
vmas.  But the behavior is inconsistent for "always" mode
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00f195d4-d039-3cf2-d3a1-a2c88de397a0@suse.cz/).

The "always" mode means THP allocation should be tried all the time and
khugepaged should try to collapse THP all the time.  Of course the
allocation and collapse may fail due to other factors and conditions.

Currently file THP may not be collapsed by khugepaged even though all the
conditions are met.  That does break the semantics of "always" mode.

So make sure readonly FS vmas are registered to khugepaged to fix the
break.

Register suitable vmas in common mmap path, that could cover both readonly
FS vmas and shmem vmas, so remove the khugepaged calls in shmem.c.

Still need to keep the khugepaged call in vma_merge() since vma_merge() is
called in a lot of places, for example, madvise, mprotect, etc.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510203222.24246-9-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastmil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent c791576c
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