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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