Song Liu 50f8b92f21 mm: thp: pass correct vm_flags to hugepage_vma_check()
khugepaged_enter_vma_merge() passes a stale vma->vm_flags to
hugepage_vma_check().  The argument vm_flags contains the latest value.
Therefore, it is necessary to pass this vm_flags into
hugepage_vma_check().

With this bug, madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) for mmap files in shmem fails to
put memory in huge pages.  Here is an example of failed madvise():

   /* mount /dev/shm with huge=advise:
    *     mount -o remount,huge=advise /dev/shm */
   /* create file /dev/shm/huge */
   #define HUGE_FILE "/dev/shm/huge"

   fd = open(HUGE_FILE, O_RDONLY);
   ptr = mmap(NULL, FILE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
   ret = madvise(ptr, FILE_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);

madvise() will return 0, but this memory region is never put in huge
page (check from /proc/meminfo: ShmemHugePages).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180629181752.792831-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: 02b75dc8160d ("mm: thp: register mm for khugepaged when merging vma for shmem")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 16:20:30 -07:00
2018-08-17 16:20:30 -07:00

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