Re: [PATCH] Fix khugepaged's request size in collapse_file()

From: Pankaj Gupta
Date: Wed Sep 02 2020 - 14:54:49 EST


> collapse_file() in khugepaged passes PAGE_SIZE as the number of pages to be
> read ahead to page_cache_sync_readahead(). It seems this was expressed as a
> number of bytes rather than a number of pages.
>
> Fix it to use the number of pages to the end of the window instead.
>
> Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 6d199c353281..f2d243077b74 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
> xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
> page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, &file->f_ra,
> file, index,
> - PAGE_SIZE);
> + end - index);
> /* drain pagevecs to help isolate_lru_page() */
> lru_add_drain();
> page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
>

Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx>