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While qualifiying the 6.4 release, the following warning was detected in messages: vmstat_refresh: nr_file_hugepages -15664 The warning is caused by the incorrect updating of the NR_FILE_THPS counter in the function split_huge_page_to_list. The if case is checking for folio_test_swapbacked, but the else case is missing the check for folio_test_pmd_mappable. The other functions that manipulate the counter like __filemap_add_folio and filemap_unaccount_folio have the corresponding check. I have a test case, which reproduces the problem. It can be found here: https://github.com/sroeschus/testcase/blob/main/vmstat_refresh/madv.c The test case reproduces on an XFS filesystem. Running the same test case on a BTRFS filesystem does not reproduce the problem. AFAIK version 6.1 until 6.6 are affected by this problem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fix] [shr@devkernel.io: test for folio_test_pmd_mappable()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231108171517.2436103-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106181918.1091043-1-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Co-debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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