Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: enable ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP for all pagesizes

[Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM Weilin Tong
<tongweilin@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP was limited to 4K page size ARM64 kernels, but
> large folios requiring swapping also exist in other page size configurations
> (e.g. 64K). Without this config, large folios in these kernels cannot be swapped
> out.
>
> Here we enable ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP for all ARM64 page sizes.

I no longer recall why this was not enabled for sizes other than
4 KB in commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64"), but
it appears to be fine, and the swap cluster size should also be
more friendly to PMD alignment.


#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
#define SWAPFILE_CLUSTER        HPAGE_PMD_NR
#define swap_entry_order(order) (order)
#else
#define SWAPFILE_CLUSTER        256
#define swap_entry_order(order) 0
#endif

>
> Signed-off-by: Weilin Tong <tongweilin@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 93173f0a09c7..58f7b4405f81 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ config ARM64
>         select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
>         select ARCH_WANTS_EXECMEM_LATE
>         select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
> -       select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if ARM64_4K_PAGES
> +       select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP
>         select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
>         select ARM_AMBA
>         select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
> --
> 2.43.7

Thanks
Barry