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The current assumption is that a large folio can only be split into order-0 folios. That is not the case for hugeTLB demotion, nor for THP split: see commitc010d47f10("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages"). When a large folio is split into ones of a lower non-zero order, only the new head pages should be tagged. Tagging tail pages can cause imbalanced "calls" counters, since only head pages are untagged by pgalloc_tag_sub() and the "calls" counts on tail pages are leaked, e.g., # echo 2048kB >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote_size # echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages # time echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote # echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages # grep alloc_gigantic_folio /proc/allocinfo Before this patch: 0 549427200 mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio real 0m2.057s user 0m0.000s sys 0m2.051s After this patch: 0 0 mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio real 0m1.711s user 0m0.000s sys 0m1.704s Not tagging tail pages also improves the splitting time, e.g., by about 15% when demoting 1GB hugeTLB folios to 2MB ones, as shown above. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240906042108.1150526-2-yuzhao@google.com Fixes:be25d1d4e8("mm: create new codetag references during page splitting") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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