From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v13 mm-new 02/16] introduce collapse_single_pmd to unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:46:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251201174627.23295-3-npache@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251201174627.23295-1-npache@redhat.com>
The khugepaged daemon and madvise_collapse have two different
implementations that do almost the same thing.
Create collapse_single_pmd to increase code reuse and create an entry
point to these two users.
Refactor madvise_collapse and collapse_scan_mm_slot to use the new
collapse_single_pmd function. This introduces a minor behavioral change
that is most likely an undiscovered bug. The current implementation of
khugepaged tests collapse_test_exit_or_disable before calling
collapse_pte_mapped_thp, but we weren't doing it in the madvise_collapse
case. By unifying these two callers madvise_collapse now also performs
this check. We also modify the return value to be SCAN_ANY_PROCESS which
properly indicates that this process is no longer valid to operate on.
We also guard the khugepaged_pages_collapsed variable to ensure its only
incremented for khugepaged.
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 959be77f2e65..433ea7283488 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2392,6 +2392,53 @@ static int collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
return result;
}
+/*
+ * Try to collapse a single PMD starting at a PMD aligned addr, and return
+ * the results.
+ */
+static int collapse_single_pmd(unsigned long addr,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool *mmap_locked,
+ struct collapse_control *cc)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ int result;
+ struct file *file;
+ pgoff_t pgoff;
+
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
+ result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr, mmap_locked, cc);
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
+ pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
+
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ *mmap_locked = false;
+ result = collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, cc);
+ fput(file);
+ if (result != SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE)
+ goto end;
+
+ mmap_read_lock(mm);
+ *mmap_locked = true;
+ if (collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm)) {
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ *mmap_locked = false;
+ return SCAN_ANY_PROCESS;
+ }
+ result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm, addr, !cc->is_khugepaged);
+ if (result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
+ result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ *mmap_locked = false;
+
+end:
+ if (cc->is_khugepaged && result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
+ ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
+ return result;
+}
+
static unsigned int collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
struct collapse_control *cc)
__releases(&khugepaged_mm_lock)
@@ -2462,34 +2509,9 @@ static unsigned int collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.address < hstart ||
khugepaged_scan.address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE >
hend);
- if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
- struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
- pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
- khugepaged_scan.address);
-
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- mmap_locked = false;
- *result = collapse_scan_file(mm,
- khugepaged_scan.address, file, pgoff, cc);
- fput(file);
- if (*result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- if (collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm))
- goto breakouterloop;
- *result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm,
- khugepaged_scan.address, false);
- if (*result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
- *result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- }
- } else {
- *result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma,
- khugepaged_scan.address, &mmap_locked, cc);
- }
-
- if (*result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
- ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
+ *result = collapse_single_pmd(khugepaged_scan.address,
+ vma, &mmap_locked, cc);
/* move to next address */
khugepaged_scan.address += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
progress += HPAGE_PMD_NR;
@@ -2801,35 +2823,20 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
hend = min(hend, vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
}
mmap_assert_locked(mm);
- if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
- struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
- pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- mmap_locked = false;
- result = collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, cc);
- fput(file);
- } else {
- result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr,
- &mmap_locked, cc);
- }
+ result = collapse_single_pmd(addr, vma, &mmap_locked, cc);
+
if (!mmap_locked)
*lock_dropped = true;
-handle_result:
switch (result) {
case SCAN_SUCCEED:
case SCAN_PMD_MAPPED:
++thps;
break;
- case SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE:
- BUG_ON(mmap_locked);
- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm, addr, true);
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- goto handle_result;
/* Whitelisted set of results where continuing OK */
case SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE:
+ case SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE:
case SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT:
case SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP:
case SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE:
--
2.51.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-01 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-01 17:46 [PATCH v13 mm-new 00/16] khugepaged: mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 01/16] khugepaged: rename hpage_collapse_* to collapse_* Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` Nico Pache [this message]
2025-12-02 15:36 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 02/16] introduce collapse_single_pmd to unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse Zi Yan
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 03/16] khugepaged: generalize hugepage_vma_revalidate for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-12-03 3:03 ` Zi Yan
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 04/16] khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio() Nico Pache
2025-12-03 3:07 ` Zi Yan
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 05/16] khugepaged: introduce is_mthp_order helper Nico Pache
2025-12-03 3:13 ` Zi Yan
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 06/16] khugepaged: generalize __collapse_huge_page_* for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 07/16] khugepaged: introduce collapse_max_ptes_none helper function Nico Pache
2025-12-02 7:53 ` Baolin Wang
2025-12-03 21:02 ` Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 08/16] khugepaged: generalize collapse_huge_page for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 09/16] khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 10/16] khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics Nico Pache
2025-12-01 18:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 11/16] khugepaged: improve tracepoints for mTHP orders Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 12/16] khugepaged: introduce collapse_allowable_orders helper function Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 13/16] khugepaged: Introduce mTHP collapse support Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 14/16] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 15/16] khugepaged: run khugepaged for all orders Nico Pache
2025-12-01 17:46 ` [PATCH v13 mm-new 16/16] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2025-12-01 18:52 ` Randy Dunlap
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