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[PATCH v4 0/3] mm, swap: Enable THP SWAP for PowerPC Book3S64

From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-06-19 04:41:24
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On PowerPC Book3S64, MMU is selected at runtime, so macros like PMD_SHIFT
are effectively runtime variables in the Book3S64 code. THP swap code uses
these macros for e.g. to size some of its array data structures based on
PMD_ORDER. This patch series makes that usage dependent on the runtime
variable and provides an upper-bound architecture override for cases (e.g.
SWAP_NR_ORDERS), where the runtime conversion is not considered beneficial.

This series increases bandwidth throughput with zram backend for swapout by
around 40-50% with Radix and 100-130% with Hash (Tested by Sayali)

Note that this patch series is based out of linux-next (next-20260608).

v3->v4:
======
1. Revert SWAPFILE_CLUSTER definition - since we already adjusted all the users
   of SWAPFILE_CLUSTER and made those users use this value at runtime (Kairui Song)

v2 -> v3:
=========
1. Fixed sparse warning for swap_table_use_page reported by lkp in patch-1

RFC -> v2:
==========
1. Send the unused leftovers change in swap.h separately [1]
2. Changed RFC Patch-3 design from runtime SWAP_NR_ORDERS to arch override
   (ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER) - suggested by Youngjun
3. Dropped RFC tag

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/68591daf0d679e5a0072d63751f187d14613e2b0.1781146877.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/ (local)
[RFC]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1781000840.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/ (local)
[v2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/cover.1781170904.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/ (local)


Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (3):
  mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime
  mm, swap: allow archs to override SWAP_NR_ORDERS via ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER
  powerpc: Kconfig: Enable THP_SWAP on Book3S64

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h |  7 +++++++
 arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype       |  1 +
 include/linux/swap.h                         | 12 +++++++++++-
 mm/swap_table.h                              |  6 ++----
 mm/swapfile.c                                | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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