Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/migrate: exclude hugetlb folios from MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON accounting

Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 7/17/26 2:45 PM, Nico Pache wrote:
> __folio_migrate_mapping() increments MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON for the
> destination folio when `folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio)`
> is true. However, hugetlb folios satisfy both conditions despite having a
> completely separate accounting system — they use hugetlb_add_anon_rmap()
> which does not touch mTHP stats, and their free path also bypasses the
> mTHP decrement in __free_pages_prepare().
> 
> This causes MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON to be incremented on each hugetlb
> migration without a corresponding decrement, permanently inflating the
> nr_anon counter.
> 
> Add a !folio_test_hugetlb() check to __folio_migrate_mapping() so that
> only actual mTHP folios are counted.
> 
> Fixes: 5d65c8d758f2 ("mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size")
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
> ---

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
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