[PATCH v2] mm: fix incorrect vm_flags usage when checking allowable orders for tmpfs

Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <7d5b5eb27be798f89d563b06254c947ff53db0b2.1787020910.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Lance reported that when nothing else causes the mm to be considered for
khugepaged collapse, an MADV_HUGEPAGE-advised tmpfs VMA alone does not trigger
scanning.

After commit 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled() into
shmem_allowable_huge_orders()"), the shmem/tmpfs allowable order check reads
vma->flags directly.  However, when MADV_HUGEPAGE is handled,
khugepaged_enter_vma() is called before the VMA's flags have been updated,
so the check uses stale flags and incorrectly rejects the VMA for collapse.
As a result, khugepaged does not collapse the tmpfs file into PMD order in time.

Fix this by calling khugepaged_enter_vma() with the new VMA flags in
madvise_update_vma(). Meanwhile we can remove the khugepaged_enter_vma()
in hugepage_madvise().

Reported-by: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Fixes: 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled() into shmem_allowable_huge_orders()")
Cc: [email protected]
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
---
Changes from v1:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ed34ca03ae7d65e89467fb87bc961f5497049c00.1786948410.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/
 - Update the commit message (per Lorenzo).
 - Call khugepaged_enter_vma() in madvise_update_vma() (per Lorenzo).
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 6 ------
 mm/madvise.c    | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 5a06e3942e88..79effd3f3da4 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -454,12 +454,6 @@ int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
 		*vm_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE;
 		*vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
-		/*
-		 * If the vma become good for khugepaged to scan,
-		 * register it here without waiting a page fault that
-		 * may not happen any time soon.
-		 */
-		khugepaged_enter_vma(vma, *vm_flags);
 		break;
 	case MADV_NOHUGEPAGE:
 		*vm_flags &= ~VM_HUGEPAGE;
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index c179938097bf..cb93cf82d8df 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ static int madvise_update_vma(vm_flags_t new_flags,
 	/* vm_flags is protected by the mmap_lock held in write mode. */
 	vma_start_write(vma);
 	vma->flags = new_vma_flags;
+	/*
+	 * If the vma become good for khugepaged to scan,
+	 * register it here without waiting a page fault that
+	 * may not happen any time soon.
+	 */
+	if (vma_flags_test(&new_vma_flags, VMA_HUGEPAGE_BIT))
+		khugepaged_enter_vma(vma, vma_flags_to_legacy(new_vma_flags));
+
 	if (set_new_anon_name)
 		return replace_anon_vma_name(vma, anon_name);
 
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