On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 05:56:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:22:50 -0800 "Darrick J. Wong" <djw...@kernel.org> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:45:53PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 02:00:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:04:51 -0800 "Darrick J. Wong" > > > > <djw...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Fixing this will require a bit of an API change, and prefeably > > > > > > > sorting out > > > > > > > the hwpoison story for pages vs folio and where it is placed in > > > > > > > the shmem > > > > > > > API. For now use this one liner to disable large folios. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <djw...@kernel.org> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> > > > > > > > > > > > > Can someone who knows more about shmem.c than I do please review > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240103084126.513354-4-...@lst.de/ > > > > > > so that I can feel slightly more confident as hch and I sort > > > > > > through the > > > > > > xfile.c issues? > > > > > > > > > > > > For this patch, > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djw...@kernel.org> > > > > > > > > > > ...except that I'm still getting 2M THPs even with this enabled, so I > > > > > guess either we get to fix it now, or create our own private tmpfs > > > > > mount > > > > > so that we can pass in huge=never, similar to what i915 does. :( > > > > > > > > What is "this"? Are you saying that $Subject doesn't work, or that the > > > > above-linked please-review patch doesn't work? > > > > > > shmem pays no attention to the mapping_large_folio_support() flag, > > > so the proposed fix doesn't work. It ought to, but it has its own way > > > of doing it that predates mapping_large_folio_support existing. > > > > Yep. It turned out to be easier to fix xfile.c to deal with large > > folios than I thought it would be. Or so I think. We'll see what > > happens on fstestscloud overnight. > > Where do we stand with this? Should I merge these two patches into > 6.8-rcX, cc:stable?
This patchset doesn't actually fix the problem, so no, let's not merge it. For 6.9 we'll make xfile.c clean w.r.t. large folios: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240129143502.189370-1-...@lst.de/ I don't think we need a 6.8 backport since xfile.c is only used by an experimental feature that is default n in kconfig. --D
