[PATCH v2 18/20] fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for "mapmax" (CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT)

David Hildenbrand
2025-02-24T16:56:47Z

Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are
no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT.

For calculating "mapmax", we now use the average per-page mapcount in
a large folio instead of the per-page mapcount.

For hugetlb folios and folios that are not partially mapped into MMs,
there is no change.

Likely, this change will not matter much in practice, and an alternative
might be to simple remove this stat with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT.
However, there might be value to it, so let's keep it like that and
document the behavior.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 5 +++++
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 09f0aed5a08ba..1aa190017f796 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -686,6 +686,11 @@ Where:
node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page
size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up.

+Note that some kernel configurations do not track the precise number of times
+a page part of a larger allocation (e.g., THP) is mapped. In these
+configurations, "mapmax" might corresponds to the average number of mappings
+per page in such a larger allocation instead.
+
1.2 Kernel data
---------------

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 80839bbf9657f..d7ee842367f0f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -2862,7 +2862,12 @@ static void gather_stats(struct page *page, struct numa_maps *md, int pte_dirty,
unsigned long nr_pages)
{
struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
- int count = folio_precise_page_mapcount(folio, page);
+ int count;
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT))
+ count = folio_precise_page_mapcount(folio, page);
+ else
+ count = min_t(int, folio_average_page_mapcount(folio), 1);

md->pages += nr_pages;
if (pte_dirty || folio_test_dirty(folio))
--
2.48.1