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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2019-10-19 05:20:36 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-10-19 12:32:33 +0200
commitef18a1ca847b01cb7296f11a728cb2f5ef671760 (patch)
tree1997ff661ec1c7d5d25bc59264d7520c845427c8 /mm
parentmm/vmscan.c: support removing arbitrary sized pages from mapping (diff)
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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/20191017164223.2762148-5-songliubraving@fb.com Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-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);