[PATCH v3] mm/huge_memory: prevent THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC increased twice

From: Liu Shixin
Date: Thu Sep 08 2022 - 21:43:03 EST


Since user who read THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC may be more concerned about the
huge zero pages that are really allocated using for thp and can indicated
the times of calling huge_zero_page_shrinker. It is misleading to increase
twice if two threads call get_huge_zero_page concurrently. Don't increase
the value if the huge page is not really used.

Update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst together.

Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2->v3: Update the commit message.
v1->v2: Update documnet.

Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 7 +++----
mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index c9c37f16eef8..8e3418ec4503 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -366,10 +366,9 @@ thp_split_pmd
page table entry.

thp_zero_page_alloc
- is incremented every time a huge zero page is
- successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where
- dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count
- every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation.
+ is incremented every time a huge zero page used for thp is
+ successfully allocated. Note, it doesn't count every map of
+ the huge zero page, only its allocation.

thp_zero_page_alloc_failed
is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 88d98241a635..5c83a424803a 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ static bool get_huge_zero_page(void)
count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED);
return false;
}
- count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC);
preempt_disable();
if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_page, NULL, zero_page)) {
preempt_enable();
@@ -175,6 +174,7 @@ static bool get_huge_zero_page(void)
/* We take additional reference here. It will be put back by shrinker */
atomic_set(&huge_zero_refcount, 2);
preempt_enable();
+ count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC);
return true;
}

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