From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org,
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, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mhiramat@kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Subject: [Patch v2 3/3] mm/khugepaged: unify SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL into SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:00:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251114030028.7035-4-richard.weiyang@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251114030028.7035-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
The current hugepage collapse scan results include two separate values,
SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL, which are handled identically by
the consuming code.
To reduce confusion and improve long-term maintenance, this commit
merges these two functionally equivalent states into a single, clearer
identifier: SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE
Suggested-by: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
---
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 3 +--
mm/khugepaged.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
index dd94d14a2427..4cde53b45a85 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
#define SCAN_STATUS \
EM( SCAN_FAIL, "failed") \
EM( SCAN_SUCCEED, "succeeded") \
- EM( SCAN_PMD_NULL, "pmd_null") \
- EM( SCAN_PMD_NONE, "pmd_none") \
+ EM( SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE, "no_pte_table") \
EM( SCAN_PMD_MAPPED, "page_pmd_mapped") \
EM( SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE, "exceed_none_pte") \
EM( SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE, "exceed_swap_pte") \
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 2ee5048b764e..40f9d5939aa5 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
enum scan_result {
SCAN_FAIL,
SCAN_SUCCEED,
- SCAN_PMD_NULL,
- SCAN_PMD_NONE,
+ SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE,
SCAN_PMD_MAPPED,
SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
@@ -934,7 +933,7 @@ static inline int check_pmd_state(pmd_t *pmd)
pmd_t pmde = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd);
if (pmd_none(pmde))
- return SCAN_PMD_NONE;
+ return SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
/*
* The folio may be under migration when khugepaged is trying to
@@ -944,11 +943,11 @@ static inline int check_pmd_state(pmd_t *pmd)
if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmde))
return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
if (!pmd_present(pmde))
- return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ return SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
if (pmd_bad(pmde))
- return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ return SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
return SCAN_SUCCEED;
}
@@ -958,7 +957,7 @@ static int find_pmd_or_thp_or_none(struct mm_struct *mm,
{
*pmd = mm_find_pmd(mm, address);
if (!*pmd)
- return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ return SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
return check_pmd_state(*pmd);
}
@@ -1013,7 +1012,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
pte = pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
if (!pte) {
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- result = SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ result = SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
goto out;
}
}
@@ -1187,7 +1186,7 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
&compound_pagelist);
spin_unlock(pte_ptl);
} else {
- result = SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ result = SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
}
if (unlikely(result != SCAN_SUCCEED)) {
@@ -1270,7 +1269,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, start_addr, &ptl);
if (!pte) {
- result = SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ result = SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
goto out;
}
@@ -1544,8 +1543,7 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
switch (result) {
case SCAN_SUCCEED:
break;
- case SCAN_PMD_NULL:
- case SCAN_PMD_NONE:
+ case SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE:
/*
* All pte entries have been removed and pmd cleared.
* Skip all the pte checks and just update the pmd mapping.
@@ -2832,8 +2830,7 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
goto handle_result;
/* Whitelisted set of results where continuing OK */
- case SCAN_PMD_NULL:
- case SCAN_PMD_NONE:
+ case SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE:
case SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT:
case SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP:
case SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE:
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-14 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-14 3:00 [Patch v2 0/3] unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup Wei Yang
2025-11-14 3:00 ` [Patch v2 1/3] mm/khugepaged: remove redundant clearing of struct collapse_control Wei Yang
2025-11-14 4:37 ` Dev Jain
2025-11-14 8:53 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 8:04 ` Baolin Wang
2025-11-17 17:23 ` Nico Pache
2025-11-14 3:00 ` [Patch v2 2/3] mm/khugepaged: continue to collapse on SCAN_PMD_NONE Wei Yang
2025-11-14 8:54 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-14 3:00 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2025-11-14 5:06 ` [Patch v2 3/3] mm/khugepaged: unify SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL into SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE Dev Jain
2025-11-14 8:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 8:11 ` Baolin Wang
2025-11-17 17:25 ` Nico Pache
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