Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758171AbcJYAOS (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:14:18 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:52610 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758113AbcJYAOK (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:14:10 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,543,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="1058554001" From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton Cc: Alexander Viro , Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , Matthew Wilcox , Ross Zwisler , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: [PATCHv4 12/43] truncate: make sure invalidate_mapping_pages() can discard huge pages Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:13:11 +0300 Message-Id: <20161025001342.76126-13-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20161025001342.76126-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> References: <20161025001342.76126-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 41 invalidate_inode_page() has expectation about page_count() of the page -- if it's not 2 (one to caller, one to radix-tree), it will not be dropped. That condition almost never met for THPs -- tail pages are pinned to the pagevec. Let's drop them, before calling invalidate_inode_page(). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov --- mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index a01cce450a26..393bf9447231 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -504,10 +504,22 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping, /* 'end' is in the middle of THP */ if (index == round_down(end, HPAGE_PMD_NR)) continue; + /* + * invalidate_inode_page() expects + * page_count(page) == 2 to drop page from page + * cache -- drop tail pages references. + */ + get_page(page); + pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec); + pagevec_release(&pvec); } ret = invalidate_inode_page(page); unlock_page(page); + + if (PageTransHuge(page)) + put_page(page); + /* * Invalidation is a hint that the page is no longer * of interest and try to speed up its reclaim. -- 2.9.3