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
next 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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