From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v8 08/15] khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 23:57:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250702055742.102808-9-npache@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250702055742.102808-1-npache@redhat.com>
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/
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>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index a42f08edb0e4..61d2b3ebc7ac 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -612,7 +612,12 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
folio = page_folio(page);
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_anon(folio), folio);
- /* See hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(). */
+ if (order != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER && folio_order(folio) >= order) {
+ result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* See khugepaged_scan_pmd(). */
if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) {
++shared;
if (order != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER || (cc->is_khugepaged &&
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-02 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-02 5:57 [PATCH v8 00/15] khugepaged: mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 01/15] khugepaged: rename hpage_collapse_* to khugepaged_* Nico Pache
2025-07-04 5:14 ` Dev Jain
2025-07-08 4:35 ` Nico Pache
2025-07-08 15:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-08 16:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 02/15] introduce khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd to unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse Nico Pache
2025-07-04 3:50 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-04 4:20 ` Nico Pache
2025-07-04 5:51 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 03/15] khugepaged: generalize hugepage_vma_revalidate for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 04/15] khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio() Nico Pache
2025-07-08 6:19 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 05/15] khugepaged: generalize __collapse_huge_page_* for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 06/15] khugepaged: introduce khugepaged_scan_bitmap " Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 07/15] khugepaged: add " Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` Nico Pache [this message]
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 09/15] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 10/15] khugepaged: allow khugepaged to check all anonymous mTHP orders Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 11/15] khugepaged: allow madvise_collapse " Nico Pache
2025-07-04 6:11 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-04 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2025-07-08 4:37 ` Nico Pache
2025-07-08 6:15 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 12/15] khugepaged: kick khugepaged for enabling none-PMD-sized mTHPs Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 13/15] khugepaged: improve tracepoints for mTHP orders Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 14/15] khugepaged: add per-order mTHP khugepaged stats Nico Pache
2025-07-08 6:09 ` Baolin Wang
2025-07-11 5:19 ` Nico Pache
2025-07-02 5:57 ` [PATCH v8 15/15] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
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