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    mm/thp: shrink_page_list() avoid splitting VM_LOCKED THP · 47d4f3ee
    Hugh Dickins authored
    4.8 commit 7751b2da ("vmscan: split file huge pages before paging
    them out") inserted a split_huge_page_to_list() into shrink_page_list()
    without considering the mlock case: no problem if the page has already
    been marked as Mlocked (the !page_evictable check much higher up will
    have skipped all this), but it has always been the case that races or
    omissions in setting Mlocked can rely on page reclaim to detect this
    and correct it before actually reclaiming - and that remains so, but
    what a shame if a hugepage is needlessly split before discovering it.
    
    It is surprising that page_check_references() returns PAGEREF_RECLAIM
    when VM_LOCKED, but there was a good reason for that: try_to_unmap_one()
    is where the condition is detected and corrected; and until now it could
    not be done in page_referenced_one(), because that does not always have
    the page locked.  Now that mlock's requirement for page lock has gone,
    copy try_to_unmap_one()'s mlock restoration into page_referenced_one(),
    and let page_check_references() return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE in this case.
    
    But page_referenced_one() may find a pte mapping one part of a hugepage:
    what hold should a pte mapped in a VM_LOCKED area exert over the entire
    huge page?  That's debatable.  The approach taken here is to treat that
    pte mapping in page_referenced_one() as if not VM_LOCKED, and if no
    VM_LOCKED pmd mapping is found later in the walk, and lack of reference
    permits, then PAGEREF_RECLAIM take it to attempted splitting as before.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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