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In set_max_huge_pages(), min_count is computed taking into account surplus
huge pages, which might lead in some cases to not be able to free huge
pages and end up accounting them as surplus instead.
One way to solve it is to subtract surplus_huge_pages directly, but we
cannot do it blindly because there might be surplus pages that are also
free pages, which might happen when we fail to restore the vmemmap for
optimized hvo pages. So we could be subtracting the same page twice.
In order to work this around, let us first compute the number of free
persistent pages, and use that along with surplus pages to compute
min_count.
Steps to reproduce:
1) create 5 hugetlb folios in Node0
2) run a program to use all the hugetlb folios
3) echo 0 > nr_hugepages for Node0 to free the hugetlb folios. Thus
the 5 hugetlb folios in Node0 are accounted as surplus.
4) create 5 hugetlb folios in Node1
5) echo 0 > nr_hugepages for Node1 to free the hugetlb folios
The result:
Node0 Node1
Total 5 5
Free 0 5
Surp 5 5
The result with this patch:
Node0 Node1
Total 5 0
Free 0 0
Surp 5 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250409055957.3774471-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407124706.2688092-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Fixes: 9a30523066 ("hugetlb: add per node hstate attributes")
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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