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A test [1] in Android test suite started failing after [2] was merged.  It
turns out that after handling a major fault under per-VMA lock, the
process major fault counter does not register that fault as major.  Before
[2] read faults would be done under mmap_lock, in which case
FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag is set before retrying.  That in turn causes
mm_account_fault() to account the fault as major once retry completes. 
With per-VMA locks we often retry because a fault can't be handled without
locking the whole mm using mmap_lock.  Therefore such retries do not set
FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag.  This logic does not work after [2] because we can
now handle read major faults under per-VMA lock and upon retry the fact
there was a major fault gets lost.  Fix this by setting FAULT_FLAG_TRIED
after retrying under per-VMA lock if VM_FAULT_MAJOR was returned.  Ideally
we would use an additional VM_FAULT bit to indicate the reason for the
retry (could not handle under per-VMA lock vs other reason) but this
simpler solution seems to work, so keeping it simple.

[1] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:test/vts-testcase/kernel/api/drop_caches_prop/drop_caches_test.cpp
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231006195318.4087158-6-willy@infradead.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231226214610.109282-1-surenb@google.com
Fixes: 12214eba

 ("mm: handle read faults under the VMA lock")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>