From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Cc: 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,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] khugepaged: remove redundant index check for pmd-folios
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:05:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260227143501.1488110-1-dev.jain@arm.com> (raw)
Claim: folio_order(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER => folio->index == start.
Proof: Both loops in hpage_collapse_scan_file and collapse_file, which
iterate on the xarray, have the invariant that
start <= folio->index < start + HPAGE_PMD_NR ... (i)
A folio is always naturally aligned in the pagecache, therefore
folio_order == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER => IS_ALIGNED(folio->index, HPAGE_PMD_NR) == true ... (ii)
thp_vma_allowable_order -> thp_vma_suitable_order requires that the virtual
offsets in the VMA are aligned to the order,
=> IS_ALIGNED(start, HPAGE_PMD_NR) == true ... (iii)
Combining (i), (ii) and (iii), the claim is proven.
Therefore, remove this check.
While at it, simplify the comments.
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
v1->v2:
- Remove the check instead of converting to VM_WARN_ON
- While at it, simplify the comments
Based on mm-new (8982358e1c87).
mm/khugepaged.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 5f668c1dd0fe4..b7b4680d27ab1 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2015,9 +2015,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
* we locked the first folio, then a THP might be there already.
* This will be discovered on the first iteration.
*/
- if (folio_order(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER &&
- folio->index == start) {
- /* Maybe PMD-mapped */
+ if (folio_order(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
goto out_unlock;
}
@@ -2345,15 +2343,11 @@ static enum scan_result hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
continue;
}
- if (folio_order(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER &&
- folio->index == start) {
- /* Maybe PMD-mapped */
+ if (folio_order(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
/*
- * For SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE, further processing
- * by the caller won't touch the page cache, and so
- * it's safe to skip LRU and refcount checks before
- * returning.
+ * PMD-sized THP implies that we can only try
+ * retracting the PTE table.
*/
folio_put(folio);
break;
--
2.34.1
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