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Commit bd20e20c authored by Yin Fengwei's avatar Yin Fengwei Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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madvise:madvise_free_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check

commit 0e0e9bd5 upstream.

Commit 98b211d6 ("madvise: convert madvise_free_pte_range() to use a
folio") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check
whether the folio is shared by other mapping.

It's not correct for large folios. folio_mapcount() returns the total
mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio
is shared.

Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares.
That means it's not 100% correct. It should be OK for madvise case here.

User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise.
But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then.

NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects
before the long term fix from David is ready.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808020917.2230692-4-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Fixes: 98b211d6

 ("madvise: convert madvise_free_pte_range() to use a folio")
Signed-off-by: default avatarYin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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