mm/thp: flush file for !is_shmem PageDirty() case in collapse_file()
For non-shmem file THPs, khugepaged only collapses read only .text
mapping (VM_DENYWRITE). These pages should not be dirty except the case
where the file hasn't been flushed since first write.
Call filemap_flush() in collapse_file() to accelerate the write back in
such cases.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106060930.2571389-3-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index a8a57be..b679908 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1602,6 +1602,24 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
result = SCAN_FAIL;
goto xa_unlocked;
}
+ } else if (PageDirty(page)) {
+ /*
+ * khugepaged only works on read-only fd,
+ * so this page is dirty because it hasn't
+ * been flushed since first write. There
+ * won't be new dirty pages.
+ *
+ * Trigger async flush here and hope the
+ * writeback is done when khugepaged
+ * revisits this page.
+ *
+ * This is a one-off situation. We are not
+ * forcing writeback in loop.
+ */
+ xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
+ filemap_flush(mapping);
+ result = SCAN_FAIL;
+ goto xa_unlocked;
} else if (trylock_page(page)) {
get_page(page);
xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
