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[PATCH mm-unstable v14 05/16] khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio()

From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Date: 2026-01-22 19:31:01
Also in: linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: documentation, memory management, memory management - misc, memory management - thp (transparent huge page), the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds

From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>

Pass order to alloc_charge_folio() and update mTHP statistics.

Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst |  8 ++++++++
 include/linux/huge_mm.h                    |  2 ++
 mm/huge_memory.c                           |  4 ++++
 mm/khugepaged.c                            | 17 +++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index 5fbc3d89bb07..c51932e6275d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -639,6 +639,14 @@ anon_fault_fallback_charge
 	instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or
 	small pages even though the allocation was successful.
 
+collapse_alloc
+	is incremented every time a huge page is successfully allocated for a
+	khugepaged collapse.
+
+collapse_alloc_failed
+	is incremented every time a huge page allocation fails during a
+	khugepaged collapse.
+
 zswpout
 	is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to zswap in one
 	piece without splitting.
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index bd7f0e1d8094..9941fc6d7bd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ enum mthp_stat_item {
 	MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_ALLOC,
 	MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_FALLBACK,
 	MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE,
+	MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC,
+	MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED,
 	MTHP_STAT_ZSWPOUT,
 	MTHP_STAT_SWPIN,
 	MTHP_STAT_SWPIN_FALLBACK,
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 5eae85818635..00fc92062d70 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -621,6 +621,8 @@ static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(anon_fault_alloc, MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_ALLOC);
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(anon_fault_fallback, MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_FALLBACK);
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(anon_fault_fallback_charge, MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
+DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_alloc, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC);
+DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_alloc_failed, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED);
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(zswpout, MTHP_STAT_ZSWPOUT);
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(swpin, MTHP_STAT_SWPIN);
 DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(swpin_fallback, MTHP_STAT_SWPIN_FALLBACK);
@@ -686,6 +688,8 @@ static struct attribute *any_stats_attrs[] = {
 #endif
 	&split_attr.attr,
 	&split_failed_attr.attr,
+	&collapse_alloc_attr.attr,
+	&collapse_alloc_failed_attr.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 59b6b89394a8..384d30b6bdd3 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1059,21 +1059,26 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
 }
 
 static enum scan_result alloc_charge_folio(struct folio **foliop, struct mm_struct *mm,
-		struct collapse_control *cc)
+		struct collapse_control *cc, unsigned int order)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = (cc->is_khugepaged ? alloc_hugepage_khugepaged_gfpmask() :
 		     GFP_TRANSHUGE);
 	int node = collapse_find_target_node(cc);
 	struct folio *folio;
 
-	folio = __folio_alloc(gfp, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, node, &cc->alloc_nmask);
+	folio = __folio_alloc(gfp, order, node, &cc->alloc_nmask);
 	if (!folio) {
 		*foliop = NULL;
-		count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED);
+		if (is_pmd_order(order))
+			count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED);
+		count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED);
 		return SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL;
 	}
 
-	count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC);
+	if (is_pmd_order(order))
+		count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC);
+	count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_ALLOC);
+
 	if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge(folio, mm, gfp))) {
 		folio_put(folio);
 		*foliop = NULL;
@@ -1109,7 +1114,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long a
 	 */
 	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 
-	result = alloc_charge_folio(&folio, mm, cc);
+	result = alloc_charge_folio(&folio, mm, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
 	if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
 		goto out_nolock;
 
@@ -1876,7 +1881,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 	VM_BUG_ON(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS) && !is_shmem);
 	VM_BUG_ON(start & (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1));
 
-	result = alloc_charge_folio(&new_folio, mm, cc);
+	result = alloc_charge_folio(&new_folio, mm, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
 	if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
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