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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 v2 00/11] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support
Date: Mon,  9 Feb 2026 17:14:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1770675272.git.luizcap@redhat.com> (raw)

Today, if an architecture implements has_transparent_hugepage() and the CPU
lacks support for PMD-sized pages, the THP code disables all THP, including
mTHP. In addition, the kernel lacks a well defined API to check for
PMD-sized page support. It currently relies on has_transparent_hugepage()
and thp_disabled_by_hw(), but they are not well defined and are tied to
THP support.

This series addresses both issues by introducing a new well defined API
to query PMD-sized page support: pgtable_has_pmd_leaves(). Using this
new helper, we ensure that mTHP remains enabled even when the
architecture or CPU doesn't support PMD-sized pages.

Thanks to David Hildenbrand for suggesting this improvement and for
providing guidance (all bugs and misconceptions are mine).

This applies to v6.19, but I tested it on v6.19-rc8+.

v2
--
- Added support for always enabling mTHPs for shmem (Baolin)
- Improved commits changelog & added reviewed-by

v1
--
- Call init_arch_has_pmd_leaves() from start_kernel()
- Keep pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() calls tied to CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE (David)
- Clear PUD_ORDER when clearing PMD_ORDER (David)
- Small changelog improvements (David)
- Rebased on top of latest mm-new

Luiz Capitulino (11):
  docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference
  mm: introduce pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  drivers: dax: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  drivers: i915 selftest: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  drivers: nvdimm: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  mm: debug_vm_pgtable: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  mm: shmem: drop has_transparent_hugepage() usage
  treewide: rename has_transparent_hugepage() to arch_has_pmd_leaves()
  mm: replace thp_disabled_by_hw() with pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
  mm: thp: always enable mTHP support
  mm: thp: x86: cleanup PSE feature bit usage

 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst           |  5 ++---
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h               |  4 ++--
 arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c                        |  4 ++--
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-4k.h  |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-64k.h |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h  | 10 +++++-----
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h    |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c       |  4 ++--
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h               |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h                |  6 ------
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h             |  6 ++++++
 drivers/dax/dax-private.h                     |  2 +-
 .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/huge_pages.c   |  4 +++-
 drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c                     |  6 ++++--
 include/linux/huge_mm.h                       |  7 -------
 include/linux/pgtable.h                       | 11 ++++++++--
 init/main.c                                   |  1 +
 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c                         | 20 +++++++++----------
 mm/huge_memory.c                              | 13 ++++++------
 mm/memory.c                                   | 10 +++++++++-
 mm/shmem.c                                    | 11 +++++-----
 21 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-02-09 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-09 22:14 Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] mm: introduce pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-10  7:45   ` kernel test robot
2026-02-10  8:05   ` kernel test robot
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] drivers: dax: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] drivers: i915 selftest: " Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] drivers: nvdimm: " Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] mm: debug_vm_pgtable: " Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mm: shmem: drop has_transparent_hugepage() usage Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-10  9:20   ` Baolin Wang
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] treewide: rename has_transparent_hugepage() to arch_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] mm: replace thp_disabled_by_hw() with pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-10  9:56   ` Baolin Wang
2026-02-10 13:28     ` Luiz Capitulino
2026-02-11  1:12       ` Baolin Wang
2026-02-09 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] mm: thp: x86: cleanup PSE feature bit usage Luiz Capitulino

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