From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH mm-unstable v15 06/13] mm/khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:24:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260226032445.233437-1-npache@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260226031741.230674-1-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: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.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 | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index fb3ba8fe5a6c..c739f26dd61e 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -638,6 +638,14 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
goto out;
}
}
+ /*
+ * TODO: In some cases of partially-mapped folios, we'd actually
+ * want to collapse.
+ */
+ if (!is_pmd_order(order) && folio_order(folio) >= order) {
+ result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+ goto out;
+ }
if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
struct folio *f;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 3:17 [PATCH mm-unstable v15 00/13] khugepaged: mTHP support Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:22 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 01/13] mm/khugepaged: generalize hugepage_vma_revalidate for " Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:23 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 02/13] mm/khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio() Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:23 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 03/13] mm/khugepaged: generalize __collapse_huge_page_* for mTHP support Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:24 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 04/13] mm/khugepaged: introduce collapse_max_ptes_none helper function Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:24 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 05/13] mm/khugepaged: generalize collapse_huge_page for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:24 ` Nico Pache [this message]
2026-02-26 3:25 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 07/13] mm/khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:25 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 08/13] mm/khugepaged: improve tracepoints for mTHP orders Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:25 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 09/13] mm/khugepaged: introduce collapse_allowable_orders helper function Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:26 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 10/13] mm/khugepaged: Introduce mTHP collapse support Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:26 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 11/13] mm/khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:26 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 12/13] mm/khugepaged: run khugepaged for all orders Nico Pache
2026-02-26 3:27 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v15 13/13] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
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