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From: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] mm/ksm: fix some accounting problems
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 13:15:20 +0800
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, 
 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, hughd@google.com, aarcange@redhat.com, 
 Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>, Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>, 
 xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>, Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, zhouchengming@bytedance.com, 
 Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>

Changes in v3:
- Collect Reviewed-by tag from xu xin, thanks!
- Improve the changelog of patch-2, per xu xin.
- Rebase and retest based on v6.10-rc1.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513-b4-ksm-counters-v2-0-f2520183a8ca@linux.dev

Changes in v2:
- Add Fixes and Acked-by tags from David Hildenbrand, thanks!
- Inline atomic_long_read(&ksm_zero_pages), per David Hildenbrand.
- Don't include the last two optimization patches to keep this fix
  simple.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508-b4-ksm-counters-v1-0-e2a9b13f70c5@linux.dev

We encounter some abnormal ksm_pages_scanned and ksm_zero_pages during
some random tests.

1. ksm_pages_scanned unchanged even ksmd scanning has progress.
2. ksm_zero_pages maybe -1 in some rare cases.

Thanks for review and comments!

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
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Chengming Zhou (2):
      mm/ksm: fix ksm_pages_scanned accounting
      mm/ksm: fix ksm_zero_pages accounting

 fs/proc/base.c           |  2 +-
 include/linux/ksm.h      | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |  2 +-
 mm/ksm.c                 | 17 +++++++----------
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 1613e604df0cd359cf2a7fbd9be7a0bcfacfabd0
change-id: 20240528-b4-ksm-counters-6a6452e23f17

Best regards,
-- 
Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>