Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v2 5/5] mm/khugepaged: unify khugepaged and madv_collapse with collapse_single_pmd()

[Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 2:24 AM Baolin Wang
<baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
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> On 2/26/26 9:29 AM, Nico Pache wrote:
> > 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 properly indicates that this process is no longer valid to operate on.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: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
> > ---
>
> [snip]
>
> >       for (addr = hstart; addr < hend; addr += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
> >               enum scan_result result = SCAN_FAIL;
> > -             bool triggered_wb = false;
> >
> > -retry:
> >               if (!mmap_locked) {
> >                       cond_resched();
> >                       mmap_read_lock(mm);
> >                       mmap_locked = true;
> > +                     *lock_dropped = true;
> IIUC, this should be '*lock_dropped = false', right?

Yes! Thanks for catching that :) As David and others have pointed out,
this lock handling here might be unnecessary and better placed in
collapse_single_pmd(). I meant to look into that before posting this
but it slipped my mind.

>
> >                       result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, addr, false, &vma,
> >                                                        cc);
> >                       if (result  != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
> > @@ -2836,46 +2872,20 @@ 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;
> > -                     *lock_dropped = true;
> > -                     result = collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, NULL, cc);
> >
> > -                     if (result == SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK && !triggered_wb &&
> > -                         mapping_can_writeback(file->f_mapping)) {
> > -                             loff_t lstart = (loff_t)pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> > -                             loff_t lend = lstart + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE - 1;
> > +             result = collapse_single_pmd(addr, vma, &mmap_locked, NULL, cc);
> >
> > -                             filemap_write_and_wait_range(file->f_mapping, lstart, lend);
> > -                             triggered_wb = true;
> > -                             fput(file);
> > -                             goto retry;
> > -                     }
> > -                     fput(file);
> > -             } else {
> > -                     result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr, &mmap_locked, NULL, 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 = try_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:
>