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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 2/2] mm/sparse-vmemmap: fix DAX vmemmap accounting with optimization
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:45:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260724164505.471020-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260724164505.471020-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

[ Upstream commit 721a73e30c9e3e8fcffe1725bcede1bbd20b4918 ]

When vmemmap optimization is enabled for DAX, the nr_memmap_pages counter
in /proc/vmstat is incorrect.  The current code always accounts for the
full, non-optimized vmemmap size, but vmemmap optimization reduces the
actual number of vmemmap pages by reusing tail pages.  This causes the
system to overcount vmemmap usage, leading to inaccurate page statistics
in /proc/vmstat.

Fix this by introducing section_nr_vmemmap_pages(), which returns the
exact vmemmap page count for a given pfn range based on whether
optimization is in effect.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428081855.1249045-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 2c9fbc07c95697..ecd780cb5bfc58 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -679,6 +679,31 @@ void offline_mem_sections(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 	}
 }
 
+static int __meminit section_nr_vmemmap_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
+		struct vmem_altmap *altmap, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
+{
+	const unsigned int order = pgmap ? pgmap->vmemmap_shift : 0;
+	const unsigned long pages_per_compound = 1UL << order;
+
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(pfn | nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION));
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_pages > PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+
+	if (!vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
+		return DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages * sizeof(struct page), PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	if (order < PFN_SECTION_SHIFT) {
+		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(pfn | nr_pages, pages_per_compound));
+		return VMEMMAP_RESERVE_NR * nr_pages / pages_per_compound;
+	}
+
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(pfn | nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION));
+
+	if (IS_ALIGNED(pfn, pages_per_compound))
+		return VMEMMAP_RESERVE_NR;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
 		unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
 		struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
@@ -686,7 +711,7 @@ static struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
 	struct page *page = __populate_section_memmap(pfn, nr_pages, nid, altmap,
 						      pgmap);
 
-	memmap_pages_add(DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages * sizeof(struct page), PAGE_SIZE));
+	memmap_pages_add(section_nr_vmemmap_pages(pfn, nr_pages, altmap, pgmap));
 
 	return page;
 }
@@ -697,7 +722,7 @@ static void depopulate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	unsigned long start = (unsigned long) pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	unsigned long end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
 
-	memmap_pages_add(-1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages * sizeof(struct page), PAGE_SIZE)));
+	memmap_pages_add(-section_nr_vmemmap_pages(pfn, nr_pages, altmap, pgmap));
 	vmemmap_free(start, end, altmap);
 }
 
@@ -705,9 +730,10 @@ static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
 {
 	unsigned long start = (unsigned long)memmap;
 	unsigned long end = (unsigned long)(memmap + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(memmap);
 
-	memmap_boot_pages_add(-1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(PAGES_PER_SECTION * sizeof(struct page),
-						  PAGE_SIZE)));
+	memmap_boot_pages_add(-section_nr_vmemmap_pages(pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION,
+							NULL, NULL));
 	vmemmap_free(start, end, NULL);
 }
 
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-24 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-20 14:21 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/sparse-vmemmap: fix DAX vmemmap accounting with" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-24 16:45 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] mm: prepare to move subsection_map_init() to mm/sparse-vmemmap.c Sasha Levin
2026-07-24 16:45   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-07-30 12:24   ` Greg KH

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