* [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: use inline helper functions instead of ugly macros
2026-02-27 9:44 [PATCH v2 0/6] support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU Baolin Wang
@ 2026-02-27 9:44 ` Baolin Wang
2026-02-27 9:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: rename ptep/pmdp_clear_young_notify() to ptep/pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify() Baolin Wang
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From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
People have already complained that these *_clear_young_notify() related
macros are very ugly, so let's use inline helpers to make them more readable.
In addition, we cannot implement these inline helper functions in the
mmu_notifier.h file, because some arch-specific files will include the
mmu_notifier.h, which introduces header compilation dependencies and causes
build errors (e.g., arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h). Moreover, since
these functions are only used in the mm, implementing these inline helpers
in the mm/internal.h header seems reasonable.
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 54 ------------------------------------
mm/internal.h | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
index 07a2bbaf86e9..93894b90c8c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -515,55 +515,6 @@ static inline void mmu_notifier_range_init_owner(
range->owner = owner;
}
-#define clear_flush_young_ptes_notify(__vma, __address, __ptep, __nr) \
-({ \
- int __young; \
- struct vm_area_struct *___vma = __vma; \
- unsigned long ___address = __address; \
- unsigned int ___nr = __nr; \
- __young = clear_flush_young_ptes(___vma, ___address, __ptep, ___nr); \
- __young |= mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(___vma->vm_mm, \
- ___address, \
- ___address + \
- ___nr * PAGE_SIZE); \
- __young; \
-})
-
-#define pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(__vma, __address, __pmdp) \
-({ \
- int __young; \
- struct vm_area_struct *___vma = __vma; \
- unsigned long ___address = __address; \
- __young = pmdp_clear_flush_young(___vma, ___address, __pmdp); \
- __young |= mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(___vma->vm_mm, \
- ___address, \
- ___address + \
- PMD_SIZE); \
- __young; \
-})
-
-#define ptep_clear_young_notify(__vma, __address, __ptep) \
-({ \
- int __young; \
- struct vm_area_struct *___vma = __vma; \
- unsigned long ___address = __address; \
- __young = ptep_test_and_clear_young(___vma, ___address, __ptep);\
- __young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(___vma->vm_mm, ___address, \
- ___address + PAGE_SIZE); \
- __young; \
-})
-
-#define pmdp_clear_young_notify(__vma, __address, __pmdp) \
-({ \
- int __young; \
- struct vm_area_struct *___vma = __vma; \
- unsigned long ___address = __address; \
- __young = pmdp_test_and_clear_young(___vma, ___address, __pmdp);\
- __young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(___vma->vm_mm, ___address, \
- ___address + PMD_SIZE); \
- __young; \
-})
-
#else /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
struct mmu_notifier_range {
@@ -651,11 +602,6 @@ static inline void mmu_notifier_subscriptions_destroy(struct mm_struct *mm)
#define mmu_notifier_range_update_to_read_only(r) false
-#define clear_flush_young_ptes_notify clear_flush_young_ptes
-#define pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify pmdp_clear_flush_young
-#define ptep_clear_young_notify ptep_test_and_clear_young
-#define pmdp_clear_young_notify pmdp_test_and_clear_young
-
static inline void mmu_notifier_synchronize(void)
{
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index f4d95e2ab799..f27cdad98c1e 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/khugepaged.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
@@ -1791,4 +1792,55 @@ static inline int io_remap_pfn_range_complete(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return remap_pfn_range_complete(vma, addr, pfn, size, prot);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
+static inline int clear_flush_young_ptes_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
+{
+ int young;
+
+ young = clear_flush_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+ young |= mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(vma->vm_mm, addr,
+ addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE);
+ return young;
+}
+
+static inline int pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
+{
+ int young;
+
+ young = pmdp_clear_flush_young(vma, addr, pmdp);
+ young |= mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + PMD_SIZE);
+ return young;
+}
+
+static inline int ptep_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+ int young;
+
+ young = ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+ young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ return young;
+}
+
+static inline int pmdp_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
+{
+ int young;
+
+ young = pmdp_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pmdp);
+ young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + PMD_SIZE);
+ return young;
+}
+
+#else /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
+
+#define clear_flush_young_ptes_notify clear_flush_young_ptes
+#define pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify pmdp_clear_flush_young
+#define ptep_clear_young_notify ptep_test_and_clear_young
+#define pmdp_clear_young_notify pmdp_test_and_clear_young
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
+
#endif /* __MM_INTERNAL_H */
--
2.47.3
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@ 2026-02-27 9:44 ` Baolin Wang
2026-02-27 9:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: rmap: add a ZONE_DEVICE folio warning in folio_referenced() Baolin Wang
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From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Rename ptep/pmdp_clear_young_notify() to ptep/pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify()
to make the function names consistent.
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
mm/internal.h | 8 ++++----
mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index f27cdad98c1e..af04b177f21f 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ static inline int pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return young;
}
-static inline int ptep_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
int young;
@@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return young;
}
-static inline int pmdp_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline int pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
{
int young;
@@ -1838,8 +1838,8 @@ static inline int pmdp_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#define clear_flush_young_ptes_notify clear_flush_young_ptes
#define pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify pmdp_clear_flush_young
-#define ptep_clear_young_notify ptep_test_and_clear_young
-#define pmdp_clear_young_notify pmdp_test_and_clear_young
+#define ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify ptep_test_and_clear_young
+#define pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify pmdp_test_and_clear_young
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 6c94e4ecebb2..0a5622420987 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3508,7 +3508,7 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_clear_young_notify(args->vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(args->vma, addr, pte + i))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -3599,7 +3599,7 @@ static void walk_pmd_range_locked(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, struct vm_area
if (!folio)
goto next;
- if (!pmdp_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pmd + i))
+ if (!pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pmd + i))
goto next;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -4189,7 +4189,7 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
lockdep_assert_held(pvmw->ptl);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_test_lru(folio), folio);
- if (!ptep_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte))
+ if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte))
return false;
if (spin_is_contended(pvmw->ptl))
@@ -4241,7 +4241,7 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte + i))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
--
2.47.3
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From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
The folio_referenced() is used to test whether a folio was referenced during
reclaim. Moreover, ZONE_DEVICE folios are controlled by their device driver,
have a lifetime tied to that driver, and are never placed on the LRU list.
That means we should never try to reclaim ZONE_DEVICE folios, so add a warning
to catch this unexpected behavior in folio_referenced() to avoid confusion,
as discussed in the previous thread[1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/16fb7985-ec0f-4b56-91e7-404c5114f899@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
mm/rmap.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index bff8f222004e..11cc6171344f 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ int folio_referenced(struct folio *folio, int is_locked,
.invalid_vma = invalid_folio_referenced_vma,
};
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_is_zone_device(folio), folio);
*vm_flags = 0;
if (!pra.mapcount)
return 0;
--
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From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Currently, MGLRU will call ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify() to check and
clear the young flag for each PTE sequentially, which is inefficient for
large folios reclamation.
Moreover, on Arm64 architecture, which supports contiguous PTEs, the Arm64-
specific ptep_test_and_clear_young() already implements an optimization to
clear the young flags for PTEs within a contiguous range. However, this is not
sufficient. Similar to the Arm64 specific clear_flush_young_ptes(), we can
extend this to perform batched operations for the entire large folio (which
might exceed the contiguous range: CONT_PTE_SIZE).
Thus, we can introduce a new batched helper: test_and_clear_young_ptes() and
its wrapper test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() which are consistent with the
existing functions, to perform batched checking of the young flags for large
folios, which can help improve performance during large folio reclamation when
MGLRU is enabled. And it will be overridden by the architecture that implements
a more efficient batch operation in the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/internal.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 776993d4567b..29bd9fd04e1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -1103,6 +1103,44 @@ static inline int clear_flush_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
#endif
+#ifndef test_and_clear_young_ptes
+/**
+ * test_and_clear_young_ptes - Mark PTEs that map consecutive pages of the same
+ * folio as old
+ * @vma: The virtual memory area the pages are mapped into.
+ * @addr: Address the first page is mapped at.
+ * @ptep: Page table pointer for the first entry.
+ * @nr: Number of entries to clear access bit.
+ *
+ * May be overridden by the architecture; otherwise, implemented as a simple
+ * loop over ptep_test_and_clear_young().
+ *
+ * Note that PTE bits in the PTE range besides the PFN can differ. For example,
+ * some PTEs might be write-protected.
+ *
+ * Context: The caller holds the page table lock. The PTEs map consecutive
+ * pages that belong to the same folio. The PTEs are all in the same PMD.
+ *
+ * Returns: whether any PTE was young.
+ */
+static inline int test_and_clear_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+ unsigned int nr)
+{
+ int young = 0;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ young |= ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+ if (--nr == 0)
+ break;
+ ptep++;
+ addr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+
+ return young;
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* On some architectures hardware does not set page access bit when accessing
* memory page, it is responsibility of software setting this bit. It brings
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index af04b177f21f..a5f0a264ad56 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1814,13 +1814,13 @@ static inline int pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return young;
}
-static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+static inline int test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
{
int young;
- young = ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
- young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ young = test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+ young |= mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE);
return young;
}
@@ -1838,9 +1838,15 @@ static inline int pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#define clear_flush_young_ptes_notify clear_flush_young_ptes
#define pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify pmdp_clear_flush_young
-#define ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify ptep_test_and_clear_young
+#define test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify test_and_clear_young_ptes
#define pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify pmdp_test_and_clear_young
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
+static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+ return test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
+}
+
#endif /* __MM_INTERNAL_H */
--
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From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Use the batched helper test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() to check and clear
the young flag to improve the performance during large folio reclamation when
MGLRU is enabled.
Meanwhile, we can also support batched checking the young and dirty flag
when MGLRU walks the mm's pagetable to update the folios' generation
counter. Since MGLRU also checks the PTE dirty bit, use folio_pte_batch_flags()
with FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY set to detect batches of PTEs for a large folio.
Then we can remove the ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify() since it has
no users now.
Note that we also update the 'young' counter and 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]' counter
with the batched count in the lru_gen_look_around() and walk_pte_range(). However,
the batched operations may inflate these two counters, because in a large folio not
all PTEs may have been accessed. (Additionally, tracking how many PTEs have been
accessed within a large folio is not very meaningful, since the mm core actually
tracks access/dirty on a per-folio basis, not per page). The impact analysis is as
follows:
1. The 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]' counter has no functional impact and is mainly for
debugging.
2. The 'young' counter is used to decide whether to place the current PMD entry into the
bloom filters by suitable_to_scan() (so that next time we can check whether it has been
accessed again), which may set the hash bit in the bloom filters for a PMD entry that
hasn’t seen much access. However, bloom filters inherently allow some error, so this
effect appears negligible.
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +++--
mm/internal.h | 6 ------
mm/rmap.c | 28 +++++++++++++--------------
mm/vmscan.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 3e2f9c953ad4..66ad80b83baa 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ struct lru_gen_memcg {
void lru_gen_init_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec);
-bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw);
+bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, unsigned int nr);
void lru_gen_init_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
void lru_gen_exit_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
@@ -652,7 +652,8 @@ static inline void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
}
-static inline bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
+static inline bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
+ unsigned int nr)
{
return false;
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index a5f0a264ad56..a1b3967afe41 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1843,10 +1843,4 @@ static inline int pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
-static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
-{
- return test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
-}
-
#endif /* __MM_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 11cc6171344f..beb423f3e8ec 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -958,25 +958,21 @@ static bool folio_referenced_one(struct folio *folio,
return false;
}
+ if (pvmw.pte && folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned long end_addr = pmd_addr_end(address, vma->vm_end);
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end_addr - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ pte_t pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, pvmw.pte, pteval, max_nr);
+ ptes += nr;
+ }
+
if (lru_gen_enabled() && pvmw.pte) {
- if (lru_gen_look_around(&pvmw))
+ if (lru_gen_look_around(&pvmw, nr))
referenced++;
} else if (pvmw.pte) {
- if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
- unsigned long end_addr = pmd_addr_end(address, vma->vm_end);
- unsigned int max_nr = (end_addr - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- pte_t pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
-
- nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, pvmw.pte,
- pteval, max_nr);
- }
-
- ptes += nr;
if (clear_flush_young_ptes_notify(vma, address, pvmw.pte, nr))
referenced++;
- /* Skip the batched PTEs */
- pvmw.pte += nr - 1;
- pvmw.address += (nr - 1) * PAGE_SIZE;
} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)) {
if (pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address,
pvmw.pmd))
@@ -995,6 +991,10 @@ static bool folio_referenced_one(struct folio *folio,
page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
break;
}
+
+ /* Skip the batched PTEs */
+ pvmw.pte += nr - 1;
+ pvmw.address += (nr - 1) * PAGE_SIZE;
}
if (referenced)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0a5622420987..7457b3c06fa3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3474,6 +3474,7 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(walk->lruvec);
DEFINE_MAX_SEQ(walk->lruvec);
int gen = lru_gen_from_seq(max_seq);
+ unsigned int nr;
pmd_t pmdval;
pte = pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(args->mm, pmd, start & PMD_MASK, &pmdval, &ptl);
@@ -3492,11 +3493,13 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
lazy_mmu_mode_enable();
restart:
- for (i = pte_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ for (i = pte_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;
struct folio *folio;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte + i);
+ pte_t *cur_pte = pte + i;
+ pte_t ptent = ptep_get(cur_pte);
+ nr = 1;
total++;
walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_TOTAL]++;
@@ -3508,7 +3511,16 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(args->vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch_flags(folio, NULL, cur_pte, &ptent,
+ max_nr, FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY);
+ total += nr - 1;
+ walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_TOTAL] += nr - 1;
+ }
+
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(args->vma, addr, cur_pte, nr))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -3521,8 +3533,8 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
if (pte_dirty(ptent))
dirty = true;
- young++;
- walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]++;
+ young += nr;
+ walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG] += nr;
}
walk_update_folio(walk, last, gen, dirty);
@@ -4166,7 +4178,7 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
* the PTE table to the Bloom filter. This forms a feedback loop between the
* eviction and the aging.
*/
-bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
+bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, unsigned int nr)
{
int i;
bool dirty;
@@ -4184,12 +4196,13 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
struct lruvec *lruvec;
struct lru_gen_mm_state *mm_state;
unsigned long max_seq;
+ pte_t *cur_pte;
int gen;
lockdep_assert_held(pvmw->ptl);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_test_lru(folio), folio);
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte))
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, pte, nr))
return false;
if (spin_is_contended(pvmw->ptl))
@@ -4229,10 +4242,12 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
pte -= (addr - start) / PAGE_SIZE;
- for (i = 0, addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ for (i = 0, addr = start, cur_pte = pte; addr != end;
+ i += nr, cur_pte += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte + i);
+ pte_t ptent = ptep_get(cur_pte);
+ nr = 1;
pfn = get_pte_pfn(ptent, vma, addr, pgdat);
if (pfn == -1)
continue;
@@ -4241,7 +4256,14 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch_flags(folio, NULL, cur_pte, &ptent,
+ max_nr, FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY);
+ }
+
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, cur_pte, nr))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -4254,7 +4276,7 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (pte_dirty(ptent))
dirty = true;
- young++;
+ young += nr;
}
walk_update_folio(walk, last, gen, dirty);
--
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2026-02-27 9:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm: support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU Baolin Wang
@ 2026-02-27 9:44 ` Baolin Wang
5 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-02-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, lorenzo.stoakes, ryan.roberts,
Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, riel, harry.yoo,
jannh, willy, baohua, dev.jain, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc,
hannes, zhengqi.arch, shakeel.butt, baolin.wang, linux-mm,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Implement the Arm64 architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes() to enable
batched checking of young flags, improving performance during large folio
reclamation when MGLRU is enabled.
While we're at it, simplify ptep_test_and_clear_young() by calling
test_and_clear_young_ptes(). Since callers guarantee that PTEs are present
before calling these functions, we can use pte_cont() to check the CONT_PTE
flag instead of pte_valid_cont().
Performance testing:
Enable MGLRU, then allocate 10G clean file-backed folios by mmap() in a memory
cgroup, and try to reclaim 8G file-backed folios via the memory.reclaim interface.
I can observe 60%+ performance improvement on my Arm64 32-core server (and about
15% improvement on my X86 machine).
W/o patchset:
real 0m0.470s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.470s
W/ patchset:
real 0m0.180s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.179s
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index aa4b13da6371..ab451d20e4c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1812,16 +1812,22 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
return __ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
}
+#define test_and_clear_young_ptes test_and_clear_young_ptes
+static inline int test_and_clear_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+ unsigned int nr)
+{
+ if (likely(nr == 1 && !pte_cont(__ptep_get(ptep))))
+ return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+
+ return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+}
+
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
- pte_t orig_pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
-
- if (likely(!pte_valid_cont(orig_pte)))
- return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
-
- return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
+ return test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
}
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH
--
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