Re: [PATCH 2/2] page cache: Store only head pages in i_pages

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:56:44PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 01:32:24PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Transparent Huge Pages are currently stored in i_pages as pointers to
> > consecutive subpages.  This patch changes that to storing consecutive
> > pointers to the head page in preparation for storing huge pages more
> > efficiently in i_pages.
> 
> I probably miss something, I don't see how it wouldn't break
> split_huge_page().
> 
> I don't see what would replace head pages in i_pages with
> formerly-tail-pages?

You're quite right.  Where's your test-suite?  ;-)

I think this should do the job:

+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2464,6 +2464,9 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
                        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && PageSwapBacked(head))
                                shmem_uncharge(head->mapping->host, 1);
                        put_page(head + i);
+               } else if (!PageAnon(page)) {
+                       __xa_store(&head->mapping->i_pages, head[i].index,
+                                       head + i, 0);
                }
        }
 

Having looked at this area, I think there was actually a bug in the patch
you wrote that I'm cribbing from.  You inserted the tail pages before
calling __split_huge_page_tail(), so a racing lookup would have found
a tail page before it got transformed into a non-tail page.