[PATCH v3 6/7] mm/shmem, swap: fix major fault counting

From: Kairui Song
Date: Fri Jun 27 2025 - 02:23:57 EST


From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If the swapin failed, don't update the major fault count. There is a
long existing comment for doing it this way, now with previous cleanups,
we can finally fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5f2641fd1be7..ea9a105ded5d 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2316,12 +2316,6 @@ static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
/* Look it up and read it in.. */
folio = swap_cache_get_folio(swap, NULL, 0);
if (!folio) {
- /* Or update major stats only when swapin succeeds?? */
- if (fault_type) {
- *fault_type |= VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
- count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
- count_memcg_event_mm(fault_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
- }
if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO)) {
/* Direct mTHP swapin without swap cache or readahead */
folio = shmem_swapin_direct(inode, vma, index,
@@ -2341,6 +2335,11 @@ static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
}
if (!folio)
goto failed;
+ if (fault_type) {
+ *fault_type |= VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
+ count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
+ count_memcg_event_mm(fault_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
+ }
}
/*
* We need to split an existing large entry if swapin brought in a
--
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