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authorNico Pache <npache@redhat.com>2026-03-25 14:40:22 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-05 23:53:30 +0300
commita155d945b73c5b0668e898df5495afe45bb261cd (patch)
tree20d91acb3d3e3c5037ae714a00492f5129cebdc6
parentff7e03a87169d3c2b05f86e7e96456ab62e6cbb1 (diff)
downloadlinux-a155d945b73c5b0668e898df5495afe45bb261cd.tar.xz
mm/khugepaged: unify khugepaged and madv_collapse with collapse_single_pmd()
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. To help reduce confusion around the mmap_locked variable, we rename mmap_locked to lock_dropped in the collapse_scan_mm_slot() function, and remove the redundant mmap_locked in madvise_collapse(); this further unifies the code readiblity. the SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE enum is no longer reachable in the madvise_collapse() function, so we drop it from the list of "continuing" enums. 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 We also modify the return value to be SCAN_ANY_PROCESS which properly indicates that this process is no longer valid to operate on. By moving the madvise_collapse writeback-retry logic into the helper function we can also avoid having to revalidate the VMA. We guard the khugepaged_pages_collapsed variable to ensure its only incremented for khugepaged. As requested we also convert a VM_BUG_ON to a VM_WARN_ON. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260325114022.444081-6-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <raquini@redhat.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai (SUSE) <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/khugepaged.c142
1 files changed, 72 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index c99e33094963..d21348b85a59 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ out_nolock:
static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start_addr,
- bool *mmap_locked, struct collapse_control *cc)
+ bool *lock_dropped, struct collapse_control *cc)
{
pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *pte, *_pte;
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ out_unmap:
result = collapse_huge_page(mm, start_addr, referenced,
unmapped, cc);
/* collapse_huge_page will return with the mmap_lock released */
- *mmap_locked = false;
+ *lock_dropped = true;
}
out:
trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, folio, referenced,
@@ -2417,6 +2417,67 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
return result;
}
+/*
+ * Try to collapse a single PMD starting at a PMD aligned addr, and return
+ * the results.
+ */
+static enum scan_result collapse_single_pmd(unsigned long addr,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool *lock_dropped,
+ struct collapse_control *cc)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ bool triggered_wb = false;
+ enum scan_result result;
+ struct file *file;
+ pgoff_t pgoff;
+
+ mmap_assert_locked(mm);
+
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
+ result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr, lock_dropped, cc);
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
+ pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
+
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ *lock_dropped = true;
+retry:
+ result = collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, cc);
+
+ /*
+ * For MADV_COLLAPSE, when encountering dirty pages, try to writeback,
+ * then retry the collapse one time.
+ */
+ if (!cc->is_khugepaged && result == SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK &&
+ !triggered_wb && mapping_can_writeback(file->f_mapping)) {
+ const loff_t lstart = (loff_t)pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ const loff_t lend = lstart + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE - 1;
+
+ filemap_write_and_wait_range(file->f_mapping, lstart, lend);
+ triggered_wb = true;
+ goto retry;
+ }
+ fput(file);
+
+ if (result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
+ mmap_read_lock(mm);
+ if (collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm))
+ result = SCAN_ANY_PROCESS;
+ else
+ result = try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm, addr,
+ !cc->is_khugepaged);
+ if (result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
+ result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ }
+end:
+ if (cc->is_khugepaged && result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
+ ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
+ return result;
+}
+
static void collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int progress_max,
enum scan_result *result, struct collapse_control *cc)
__releases(&khugepaged_mm_lock)
@@ -2478,46 +2539,21 @@ static void collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int progress_max,
VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
while (khugepaged_scan.address < hend) {
- bool mmap_locked = true;
+ bool lock_dropped = false;
cond_resched();
if (unlikely(collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm)))
goto breakouterloop;
- VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.address < hstart ||
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(khugepaged_scan.address < hstart ||
khugepaged_scan.address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE >
hend);
- if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
- struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
- pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
- khugepaged_scan.address);
-
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- mmap_locked = false;
- *result = collapse_scan_file(mm,
- khugepaged_scan.address, file, pgoff, cc);
- fput(file);
- if (*result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- if (collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm))
- goto breakouterloop;
- *result = try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm,
- khugepaged_scan.address, false);
- if (*result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
- *result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- }
- } else {
- *result = collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma,
- khugepaged_scan.address, &mmap_locked, cc);
- }
-
- if (*result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
- ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
+ *result = collapse_single_pmd(khugepaged_scan.address,
+ vma, &lock_dropped, cc);
/* move to next address */
khugepaged_scan.address += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
- if (!mmap_locked)
+ if (lock_dropped)
/*
* We released mmap_lock so break loop. Note
* that we drop mmap_lock before all hugepage
@@ -2792,7 +2828,6 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long hstart, hend, addr;
enum scan_result last_fail = SCAN_FAIL;
int thps = 0;
- bool mmap_locked = true;
BUG_ON(vma->vm_start > start);
BUG_ON(vma->vm_end < end);
@@ -2814,13 +2849,11 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
for (addr = hstart; addr < hend; addr += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
enum scan_result result = SCAN_FAIL;
- bool triggered_wb = false;
-retry:
- if (!mmap_locked) {
+ if (*lock_dropped) {
cond_resched();
mmap_read_lock(mm);
- mmap_locked = true;
+ *lock_dropped = false;
result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, addr, false, &vma,
cc);
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
@@ -2830,45 +2863,14 @@ retry:
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, 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;
-
- 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, cc);
- }
- if (!mmap_locked)
- *lock_dropped = true;
+ result = collapse_single_pmd(addr, vma, lock_dropped, cc);
-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_NON_PRESENT:
@@ -2891,7 +2893,7 @@ handle_result:
out_maybelock:
/* Caller expects us to hold mmap_lock on return */
- if (!mmap_locked)
+ if (*lock_dropped)
mmap_read_lock(mm);
out_nolock:
mmap_assert_locked(mm);