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authorKirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>2019-10-18 20:20:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2019-10-19 06:32:33 -0400
commitef18a1ca847b01cb7296f11a728cb2f5ef671760 (patch)
tree1997ff661ec1c7d5d25bc59264d7520c845427c8
parent906d278d75e364f2bb85dc1e1ff6265ea46e7e43 (diff)
mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache
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/[email protected] Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]> Tested-by: Song Liu <[email protected]> Acked-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]> Cc: William Kucharski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--mm/truncate.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 8563339041f6..dd9ebc1da356 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -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);