huge tmpfs: remove shrinklist addition from shmem_setattr()
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:54:24 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:58:11 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commit2b5bbcb1c9c2cd05a06dcf54df77255a8c406a7b
treeec528d6fab4000da938c88c3e6bdab1dcbb242ec
parentd144bf6205342a4b5fed5d204ae18849a4de741b
huge tmpfs: remove shrinklist addition from shmem_setattr()

There's a block of code in shmem_setattr() to add the inode to
shmem_unused_huge_shrink()'s shrinklist when lowering i_size: it dates
from before 5.7 changed truncation to do split_huge_page() for itself, and
should have been removed at that time.

I am over-stating that: split_huge_page() can fail (notably if there's an
extra reference to the page at that time), so there might be value in
retrying.  But there were already retries as truncation worked through the
tails, and this addition risks repeating unsuccessful retries
indefinitely: I'd rather remove it now, and work on reducing the chance of
split_huge_page() failures separately, if we need to.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b73b3492-8822-18f9-83e2-938528cdde94@google.com
Fixes: 71725ed10c40 ("mm: huge tmpfs: try to split_huge_page() when punching hole")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c