From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com,
baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, xu.xin16@zte.com.cn,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>,
SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: [Patch v3 2/2] mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:48:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924004854.29889-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924004854.29889-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Current code is not correct to get struct khugepaged_mm_slot by
mm_slot_entry() without checking mm_slot is !NULL. There is no problem
reported since slot is the first element of struct khugepaged_mm_slot.
While struct khugepaged_mm_slot is just a wrapper of struct mm_slot, there
is no need to define it.
Remove the definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot, so there is not chance
to miss use mm_slot_entry().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
---
v3:
* fix a PF reported by SeongJae, where slot is changed to next one
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 204ce3059267..e3f7d1760567 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -103,14 +103,6 @@ struct collapse_control {
nodemask_t alloc_nmask;
};
-/**
- * struct khugepaged_mm_slot - khugepaged information per mm that is being scanned
- * @slot: hash lookup from mm to mm_slot
- */
-struct khugepaged_mm_slot {
- struct mm_slot slot;
-};
-
/**
* struct khugepaged_scan - cursor for scanning
* @mm_head: the head of the mm list to scan
@@ -121,7 +113,7 @@ struct khugepaged_mm_slot {
*/
struct khugepaged_scan {
struct list_head mm_head;
- struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot;
+ struct mm_slot *mm_slot;
unsigned long address;
};
@@ -384,7 +376,10 @@ int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int __init khugepaged_init(void)
{
- mm_slot_cache = KMEM_CACHE(khugepaged_mm_slot, 0);
+ mm_slot_cache = kmem_cache_create("khugepaged_mm_slot",
+ sizeof(struct mm_slot),
+ __alignof__(struct mm_slot),
+ 0, NULL);
if (!mm_slot_cache)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -438,7 +433,6 @@ static bool hugepage_pmd_enabled(void)
void __khugepaged_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
int wakeup;
@@ -447,12 +441,10 @@ void __khugepaged_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
if (unlikely(mm_flags_test_and_set(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, mm)))
return;
- mm_slot = mm_slot_alloc(mm_slot_cache);
- if (!mm_slot)
+ slot = mm_slot_alloc(mm_slot_cache);
+ if (!slot)
return;
- slot = &mm_slot->slot;
-
spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
mm_slot_insert(mm_slots_hash, mm, slot);
/*
@@ -480,14 +472,12 @@ void khugepaged_enter_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
int free = 0;
spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
slot = mm_slot_lookup(mm_slots_hash, mm);
- mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct khugepaged_mm_slot, slot);
- if (mm_slot && khugepaged_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
+ if (slot && khugepaged_scan.mm_slot != slot) {
hash_del(&slot->hash);
list_del(&slot->mm_node);
free = 1;
@@ -496,9 +486,9 @@ void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
if (free) {
mm_flags_clear(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, mm);
- mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
+ mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, slot);
mmdrop(mm);
- } else if (mm_slot) {
+ } else if (slot) {
/*
* This is required to serialize against
* hpage_collapse_test_exit() (which is guaranteed to run
@@ -1432,9 +1422,8 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
return result;
}
-static void collect_mm_slot(struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot)
+static void collect_mm_slot(struct mm_slot *slot)
{
- struct mm_slot *slot = &mm_slot->slot;
struct mm_struct *mm = slot->mm;
lockdep_assert_held(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
@@ -1451,7 +1440,7 @@ static void collect_mm_slot(struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot)
*/
/* khugepaged_mm_lock actually not necessary for the below */
- mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
+ mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, slot);
mmdrop(mm);
}
}
@@ -2394,7 +2383,6 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
__acquires(&khugepaged_mm_lock)
{
struct vma_iterator vmi;
- struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
@@ -2405,14 +2393,12 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
*result = SCAN_FAIL;
if (khugepaged_scan.mm_slot) {
- mm_slot = khugepaged_scan.mm_slot;
- slot = &mm_slot->slot;
+ slot = khugepaged_scan.mm_slot;
} else {
slot = list_first_entry(&khugepaged_scan.mm_head,
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
- mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct khugepaged_mm_slot, slot);
khugepaged_scan.address = 0;
- khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot;
+ khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = slot;
}
spin_unlock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
@@ -2510,7 +2496,7 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
breakouterloop_mmap_lock:
spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
- VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot);
+ VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.mm_slot != slot);
/*
* Release the current mm_slot if this mm is about to die, or
* if we scanned all vmas of this mm.
@@ -2522,16 +2508,14 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
* mm_slot not pointing to the exiting mm.
*/
if (!list_is_last(&slot->mm_node, &khugepaged_scan.mm_head)) {
- slot = list_next_entry(slot, mm_node);
- khugepaged_scan.mm_slot =
- mm_slot_entry(slot, struct khugepaged_mm_slot, slot);
+ khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = list_next_entry(slot, mm_node);
khugepaged_scan.address = 0;
} else {
khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = NULL;
khugepaged_full_scans++;
}
- collect_mm_slot(mm_slot);
+ collect_mm_slot(slot);
}
return progress;
@@ -2618,7 +2602,7 @@ static void khugepaged_wait_work(void)
static int khugepaged(void *none)
{
- struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot;
+ struct mm_slot *slot;
set_freezable();
set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
@@ -2629,10 +2613,10 @@ static int khugepaged(void *none)
}
spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
- mm_slot = khugepaged_scan.mm_slot;
+ slot = khugepaged_scan.mm_slot;
khugepaged_scan.mm_slot = NULL;
- if (mm_slot)
- collect_mm_slot(mm_slot);
+ if (slot)
+ collect_mm_slot(slot);
spin_unlock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
return 0;
}
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 0:48 [Patch v3 0/2] mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry Wei Yang
2025-09-24 0:48 ` [Patch v3 1/2] mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL Wei Yang
2025-09-24 2:19 ` Chengming Zhou
2025-09-24 9:35 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-24 9:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 10:06 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-24 10:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 10:15 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-24 10:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 14:52 ` Wei Yang
2025-09-24 9:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 0:48 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2025-09-24 3:18 ` [Patch v3 2/2] mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot Lance Yang
2025-09-24 5:51 ` Dev Jain
2025-09-24 9:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 14:59 ` Wei Yang
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