Commit c0630669 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: thp: fix false negative of shmem vma's THP eligibility

Commit 7635d9cb ("mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each
vma") introduced THPeligible bit for processes' smaps.  But, when
checking the eligibility for shmem vma, __transparent_hugepage_enabled()
is called to override the result from shmem_huge_enabled().  It may
result in the anonymous vma's THP flag override shmem's.  For example,
running a simple test which create THP for shmem, but with anonymous THP
disabled, when reading the process's smaps, it may show:

  7fc92ec00000-7fc92f000000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 27764 /dev/shm/test
  Size:               4096 kB
  ...
  [snip]
  ...
  ShmemPmdMapped:     4096 kB
  ...
  [snip]
  ...
  THPeligible:    0

And, /proc/meminfo does show THP allocated and PMD mapped too:

  ShmemHugePages:     4096 kB
  ShmemPmdMapped:     4096 kB

This doesn't make too much sense.  The shmem objects should be treated
separately from anonymous THP.  Calling shmem_huge_enabled() with
checking MMF_DISABLE_THP sound...
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