Re: Multi-page folio issues in 5.19-rc4 (was [PATCH v3 25/25] xfs: Support large folios)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 07:32:08 EST


On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:27:40PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 05:31:20PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > So using this technique, I've discovered that there's a dirty page
> > accounting leak that eventually results in fsx hanging in
> > balance_dirty_pages().
>
> Alas, I think this is only an accounting error, and not related to
> the problem(s) that Darrick & Zorro are seeing. I think what you're
> seeing is dirty pages being dropped at truncation without the
> appropriate accounting. ie this should be the fix:

Argh, try one that actually compiles.

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index f7248002dad9..0553ae90509f 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/shrinker.h>
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <linux/khugepaged.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
@@ -2443,6 +2444,9 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
__delete_from_page_cache(head + i, NULL);
if (shmem_mapping(head->mapping))
shmem_uncharge(head->mapping->host, 1);
+ else
+ folio_account_cleaned(page_folio(head + i),
+ inode_to_wb(folio->mapping->host));
put_page(head + i);
} else if (!PageAnon(page)) {
__xa_store(&head->mapping->i_pages, head[i].index,