From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
david@kernel.org, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Cc: ryan.roberts@arm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 09/10] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:23:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dea717fe8c86003e7da33c9a7623b834649d5ee.1775679721.git.luizcap@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1775679721.git.luizcap@redhat.com>
If PMD-sized pages are not supported on an architecture (ie. the
arch implements arch_has_pmd_leaves() and it returns false) then the
current code disables all THP, including mTHP.
This commit fixes this by allowing mTHP to be always enabled for all
archs. When PMD-sized pages are not supported, its sysfs entry won't be
created and their mapping will be disallowed at page-fault time.
Similarly, this commit implements the following changes for shmem:
- In shmem_allowable_huge_orders(): drop the pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
check so that mTHP sizes are considered
- In shmem_alloc_and_add_folio(): don't consider PMD and PUD orders
when PMD-sized pages are not supported by the CPU
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 13 ++++++++-----
mm/shmem.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 86e489c0a150..6de3d8ebc35c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ unsigned long __thp_vma_allowable_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
else
supported_orders = THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT;
+ if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves())
+ supported_orders &= ~(BIT(PMD_ORDER) | BIT(PUD_ORDER));
+
orders &= supported_orders;
if (!orders)
return 0;
@@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ unsigned long __thp_vma_allowable_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!vma->vm_mm) /* vdso */
return 0;
- if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() || vma_thp_disabled(vma, vm_flags, forced_collapse))
+ if (vma_thp_disabled(vma, vm_flags, forced_collapse))
return 0;
/* khugepaged doesn't collapse DAX vma, but page fault is fine. */
@@ -787,7 +790,7 @@ static int __init hugepage_init_sysfs(struct kobject **hugepage_kobj)
* disable all other sizes. powerpc's PMD_ORDER isn't a compile-time
* constant so we have to do this here.
*/
- if (!anon_orders_configured)
+ if (!anon_orders_configured && pgtable_has_pmd_leaves())
huge_anon_orders_inherit = BIT(PMD_ORDER);
*hugepage_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("transparent_hugepage", mm_kobj);
@@ -809,6 +812,9 @@ static int __init hugepage_init_sysfs(struct kobject **hugepage_kobj)
}
orders = THP_ORDERS_ALL_ANON | THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT;
+ if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves())
+ orders &= ~(BIT(PMD_ORDER) | BIT(PUD_ORDER));
+
order = highest_order(orders);
while (orders) {
thpsize = thpsize_create(order, *hugepage_kobj);
@@ -908,9 +914,6 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
int err;
struct kobject *hugepage_kobj;
- if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves())
- return -EINVAL;
-
/*
* hugepages can't be allocated by the buddy allocator
*/
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 613393eae5a9..b49a30475cb0 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_orders(struct inode *inode,
vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma ? vma->vm_flags : 0;
unsigned int global_orders;
- if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() || (vma && vma_thp_disabled(vma, vm_flags, shmem_huge_force)))
+ if (vma && vma_thp_disabled(vma, vm_flags, shmem_huge_force))
return 0;
global_orders = shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, index, write_end,
@@ -1947,6 +1947,8 @@ static struct folio *shmem_alloc_and_add_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf,
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
orders = 0;
+ else if (!pgtable_has_pmd_leaves())
+ orders &= ~(BIT(PMD_ORDER) | BIT(PUD_ORDER));
if (orders > 0) {
suitable_orders = shmem_suitable_orders(inode, vmf,
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 20:22 [PATCH v3 00/10] " Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] mm: introduce pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] drivers: dax: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] drivers: nvdimm: " Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mm: debug_vm_pgtable: " Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mm: shmem: drop has_transparent_hugepage() usage Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] treewide: rename has_transparent_hugepage() to arch_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mm: replace thp_disabled_by_hw() with pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-04-08 20:23 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2026-04-08 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] mm: thp: x86: cleanup PSE feature bit usage Luiz Capitulino
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