Merge tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
Pull folio updates from Matthew Wilcox:
- Rewrite how munlock works to massively reduce the contention on
i_mmap_rwsem (Hugh Dickins):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8e4356d-9622-a7f0-b2c-f116b5f2efea@google.com/
- Sort out the page refcount mess for ZONE_DEVICE pages (Christoph
Hellwig):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220210072828.2930359-1-hch@lst.de/
- Convert GUP to use folios and make pincount available for order-1
pages. (Matthew Wilcox)
- Convert a few more truncation functions to use folios (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Convert page_vma_mapped_walk to use PFNs instead of pages (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Convert rmap_walk to use folios (Matthew Wilcox)
- Convert most of shrink_page_list() to use a folio (Matthew Wilcox)
- Add support for creating large folios in readahead (Matthew Wilcox)
* tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (114 commits)
mm/damon: minor cleanup for damon_pa_young
selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: Support file-backed PMD folios
mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings
mm/readahead: Switch to page_cache_ra_order
mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX
mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead
mm: Support arbitrary THP sizes
mm: Make large folios depend on THP
mm: Fix READ_ONLY_THP warning
mm/filemap: Allow large folios to be added to the page cache
mm: Turn can_split_huge_page() into can_split_folio()
mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio
mm/vmscan: Turn page_check_references() into folio_check_references()
mm/vmscan: Account large folios correctly
mm/vmscan: Optimise shrink_page_list for non-PMD-sized folios
mm/vmscan: Free non-shmem folios without splitting them
mm/rmap: Constify the rmap_walk_control argument
mm/rmap: Convert rmap_walk() to take a folio
mm: Turn page_anon_vma() into folio_anon_vma()
mm/rmap: Turn page_lock_anon_vma_read() into folio_lock_anon_vma_read()
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@@ -55,18 +55,18 @@ flags the caller provides. The caller is required to pass in a non-null struct
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pages* array, and the function then pins pages by incrementing each by a special
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value: GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS.
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For huge pages (and in fact, any compound page of more than 2 pages), the
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GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead, an exact form of pin counting
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is achieved, by using the 3rd struct page in the compound page. A new struct
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page field, hpage_pinned_refcount, has been added in order to support this.
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For compound pages, the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead,
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an exact form of pin counting is achieved, by using the 2nd struct page
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in the compound page. A new struct page field, compound_pincount, has
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been added in order to support this.
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This approach for compound pages avoids the counting upper limit problems that
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are discussed below. Those limitations would have been aggravated severely by
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huge pages, because each tail page adds a refcount to the head page. And in
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fact, testing revealed that, without a separate hpage_pinned_refcount field,
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fact, testing revealed that, without a separate compound_pincount field,
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page overflows were seen in some huge page stress tests.
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This also means that huge pages and compound pages (of order > 1) do not suffer
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This also means that huge pages and compound pages do not suffer
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from the false positives problem that is mentioned below.::
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Function
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@@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ place.)
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Other diagnostics
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=================
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dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting fields, and
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to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically, for compound pages
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with order > 1, the exact (hpage_pinned_refcount) pincount is reported.
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dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting
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fields, and to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically,
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for compound pages, the exact (compound_pincount) pincount is reported.
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