* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-shmem-ignore-sysfs-configs-for-shmem-forced-collapse.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-09-26 20:55 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-09-26 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, ziy, stable, ryan.roberts, qi.zheng, ljs, liam,
lance.yang, kas, hughd, dev.jain, david, baohua, baolin.wang,
akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-shmem-ignore-sysfs-configs-for-shmem-forced-collapse.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:12:41 +0800
According to Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst, MADV_COLLAPSE is expected to
ignore any THP or mTHP interface settings.
However, after commit 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible"
semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem"), performing MADV_COLLAPSE on
shmem will depend on /sys/.../hugepages-2048kB/shmem_enabled being set to
"inherit" (although that is the default), which can cause MADV_COLLAPSE to
fail unexpectedly.
This could cause a userspace-visible performance regression.
Fix this by returning the result of shmem_huge_global_enabled() directly
when MADV_COLLAPSE is requested, allowing PMD-order collapse while
ignoring shmem THP/mTHP settings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/063f655b4d6c4234f3aa27ed6ecab10283ecb880.1789351825.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible" semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908125105.1510704-7-kirill@shutemov.name/
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
mm/shmem.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-ignore-sysfs-configs-for-shmem-forced-collapse
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1847,8 +1847,11 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_order
global_orders = shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, index, write_end,
shmem_huge_force, vma, vm_flags);
- /* Tmpfs huge pages allocation */
- if (!vma || !vma_is_anon_shmem(vma))
+ /*
+ * Tmpfs huge pages allocation or forced collapse ignores
+ * sysfs configs.
+ */
+ if (!vma || !vma_is_anon_shmem(vma) || shmem_huge_force)
return global_orders;
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com are
mm-mglru-clear-the-reference-counter-for-rejected-folios.patch
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