On 2/26/26 04:24, Nico Pache wrote:
> khugepaged may try to collapse a mTHP to a smaller mTHP, resulting in
> some pages being unmapped. Skip these cases until we have a way to check
> if its ok to collapse to a smaller mTHP size (like in the case of a
> partially mapped folio).
> 
> This patch is inspired by Dev Jain's work on khugepaged mTHP support [1].
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
> Co-developed-by: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index fb3ba8fe5a6c..c739f26dd61e 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -638,6 +638,14 @@ static enum scan_result 
> __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>                               goto out;
>                       }
>               }
> +             /*
> +              * TODO: In some cases of partially-mapped folios, we'd actually
> +              * want to collapse.
> +              */
> +             if (!is_pmd_order(order) && folio_order(folio) >= order) {
> +                     result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
> +                     goto out;
> +             }
>  
>               if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
>                       struct folio *f;

Why aren't we doing the same in hpage_collapse_scan_pmd() ?

-- 
Cheers,

David

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