* [to-be-updated] mm-huge_memory-remove-folio-split-check-for-read_only_thp_for_fs.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-04-25 22:07 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-04-25 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, ziy, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/huge_memory: remove folio split check for READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-huge_memory-remove-folio-split-check-for-read_only_thp_for_fs.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
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From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Subject: mm/huge_memory: remove folio split check for READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:49:11 -0400
Without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS, large file-backed folios cannot be created
by a FS without large folio support. The check is no longer needed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260424024915.28758-9-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 30 +++---------------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-remove-folio-split-check-for-read_only_thp_for_fs
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3832,33 +3832,9 @@ int folio_check_splittable(struct folio
if (!folio->mapping && !folio_test_anon(folio))
return -EBUSY;
- if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
- /* order-1 is not supported for anonymous THP. */
- if (new_order == 1)
- return -EINVAL;
- } else if (split_type == SPLIT_TYPE_NON_UNIFORM || new_order) {
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS) &&
- !mapping_large_folio_support(folio->mapping)) {
- /*
- * We can always split a folio down to a single page
- * (new_order == 0) uniformly.
- *
- * For any other scenario
- * a) uniform split targeting a large folio
- * (new_order > 0)
- * b) any non-uniform split
- * we must confirm that the file system supports large
- * folios.
- *
- * Note that we might still have THPs in such
- * mappings, which is created from khugepaged when
- * CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS is enabled. But in that
- * case, the mapping does not actually support large
- * folios properly.
- */
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- }
+ /* order-1 is not supported for anonymous THP. */
+ if (folio_test_anon(folio) && new_order == 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
/*
* swapcache folio could only be split to order 0
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ziy@nvidia.com are
mm-truncate-use-folio_split-in-truncate_inode_partial_folio.patch
fs-btrfs-remove-a-comment-referring-to-read_only_thp_for_fs.patch
selftests-mm-remove-read_only_thp_for_fs-in-khugepaged.patch
selftests-mm-remove-read_only_thp_for_fs-code-from-guard-regions.patch
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