On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 07:42:01AM -0600, Nico Pache wrote:
> From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> We have now allowed mTHP collapse, but thp_vma_allowable_order() still only
> checks if the PMD-sized mTHP is allowed to collapse. This prevents scanning
> and collapsing of 64K mTHP when only 64K mTHP is enabled. Thus, we should
> modify the checks to allow all large orders of anonymous mTHP.
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 7d9b5100bea1..2cadd07341de 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -491,7 +491,11 @@ void khugepaged_enter_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> {
> if (!mm_flags_test(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, vma->vm_mm) &&
> hugepage_pmd_enabled()) {
> - if (thp_vma_allowable_order(vma, vm_flags, TVA_KHUGEPAGED, PMD_ORDER))
> + unsigned long orders = vma_is_anonymous(vma) ?
> + THP_ORDERS_ALL_ANON : BIT(PMD_ORDER);
We need some explanation here please, a comment explaining what's going on here
would go a long way.
> +
> + if (thp_vma_allowable_orders(vma, vm_flags, TVA_KHUGEPAGED,
> + orders))
> __khugepaged_enter(vma->vm_mm);
> }
> }
> @@ -2671,6 +2675,8 @@ static unsigned int collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
>
> vma_iter_init(&vmi, mm, khugepaged_scan.address);
> for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
> + unsigned long orders = vma_is_anonymous(vma) ?
> + THP_ORDERS_ALL_ANON : BIT(PMD_ORDER);
Can we have this as a separate helper function please? As you're now open-coding
this in two places.
In fact, you can put the comment I mention above there and have that document
what's happening here.
> unsigned long hstart, hend;
>
> cond_resched();
> @@ -2678,7 +2684,8 @@ static unsigned int collapse_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
> progress++;
> break;
> }
> - if (!thp_vma_allowable_order(vma, vma->vm_flags, TVA_KHUGEPAGED, PMD_ORDER)) {
> + if (!thp_vma_allowable_orders(vma, vma->vm_flags,
> + TVA_KHUGEPAGED, orders)) {
> skip:
> progress++;
> continue;
> --
> 2.50.1
>