Thread (89 messages) 89 messages, 12 authors, 2025-09-11

Re: [PATCH v10 07/13] khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders

From: Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-21 12:06:54
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 07:41:59AM -0600, Nico Pache wrote:
khugepaged may try to collapse a mTHP to a smaller mTHP, resulting in
some pages being unmapped. Skip these cases until we have a way to check
if its ok to collapse to a smaller mTHP size (like in the case of a
partially mapped folio).

This patch is inspired by Dev Jain's work on khugepaged mTHP support [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241216165105.56185-11-dev.jain@arm.com/ (local)

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Co-developed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Other than comment below, LGTM so:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 1ad7e00d3fd6..6a4cf7e4a7cc 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -611,6 +611,15 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		folio = page_folio(page);
 		VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_anon(folio), folio);

+		/*
+		 * TODO: In some cases of partially-mapped folios, we'd actually
+		 * want to collapse.
+		 */
Not a fan of adding todo's in code, they have a habit of being left forever. I'd
maybe put a more written  out comment something similar to the commit message.
+		if (order != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER && folio_order(folio) >= order) {
+			result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		/* See collapse_scan_pmd(). */
 		if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) {
 			++shared;
--
2.50.1
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