Since tmpfs THP was supported in 4.8, hugetlbfs is not the only
filesystem with huge page support anymore.  tmpfs can use huge page via
THP when mounting by "huge=" mount option.

When applications use huge page on hugetlbfs, it just need check the
filesystem magic number, but it is not enough for tmpfs.  Make
stat.st_blksize return huge page size if it is mounted by appropriate
"huge=" option to give applications a hint to optimize the behavior with
THP.

Some applications may not do wisely with THP.  For example, QEMU may
mmap file on non huge page aligned hint address with MAP_FIXED, which
results in no pages are PMD mapped even though THP is used.  Some
applications may mmap file with non huge page aligned offset.  Both
behaviors make THP pointless.

statfs.f_bsize still returns 4KB for tmpfs since THP could be split, and
it also may fallback to 4KB page silently if there is not enough huge
page.  Furthermore, different f_bsize makes max_blocks and free_blocks
calculation harder but without too much benefit.  Returning huge page
size via stat.st_blksize sounds good enough.

Since PUD size huge page for THP has not been supported, now it just
returns HPAGE_PMD_SIZE.

Hugh said:

: Sorry, I have no enthusiasm for this patch; but do I feel strongly
: enough to override you and everyone else to NAK it?  No, I don't feel
: that strongly, maybe st_blksize isn't worth arguing over.
:
: We did look at struct stat when designing huge tmpfs, to see if there
: were any fields that should be adjusted for it; but concluded none.
: Yes, it would sometimes be nice to have a quickly accessible indicator
: for when tmpfs has been mounted huge (scanning /proc/mounts for options
: can be tiresome, agreed); but since tmpfs tries to supply huge (or not)
: pages transparently, no difference seemed right.
:
: So, because st_blksize is a not very useful field of struct stat, with
: "size" in the name, we're going to put HPAGE_PMD_SIZE in there instead
: of PAGE_SIZE, if the tmpfs was mounted with one of the huge "huge"
: options (force or always, okay; within_size or advise, not so much).
: Though HPAGE_PMD_SIZE is no more its "preferred I/O size" or "blocksize
: for file system I/O" than PAGE_SIZE was.
:
: Which we can expect to speed up some applications and disadvantage
: others, depending on how they interpret st_blksize: just like if we
: changed it in the same way on non-huge tmpfs.  (Did I actually try
: changing st_blksize early on, and find it broke something?  If so, I've
: now forgotten what, and a search through commit messages didn't find
: it; but I guess we'll find out soon enough.)
:
: If there were an mstat() syscall, returning a field "preferred
: alignment", then we could certainly agree to put HPAGE_PMD_SIZE in
: there; but in stat()'s st_blksize?  And what happens when (in future)
: mm maps this or that hard-disk filesystem's blocks with a pmd mapping -
: should that filesystem then advertise a bigger st_blksize, despite the
: same disk layout as before?  What happens with DAX?
:
: And this change is not going to help the QEMU suboptimality that
: brought you here (or does QEMU align mmaps according to st_blksize?).
: QEMU ought to work well with kernels without this change, and kernels
: with this change; and I hope it can easily deal with both by avoiding
: that use of MAP_FIXED which prevented the kernel's intended alignment.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded `else']
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524665633-83806-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>