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mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache

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Once a THP is added to the page cache, it cannot be dropped via
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  Fix this issue with proper handling in
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017164223.2762148-5-songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: 99cb0dbd47 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov 2019-10-18 20:20:36 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 906d278d75
commit ef18a1ca84
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mm/truncate.c
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@ -592,6 +592,16 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
unlock_page(page);
continue;
}
/* Take a pin outside pagevec */
get_page(page);
/*
* Drop extra pins before trying to invalidate
* the huge page.
*/
pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
pagevec_release(&pvec);
}
ret = invalidate_inode_page(page);
@ -602,6 +612,8 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
*/
if (!ret)
deactivate_file_page(page);
if (PageTransHuge(page))
put_page(page);
count += ret;
}
pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);