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From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: kas@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org,
	ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@meta.com, liam@infradead.org, nico.pache@linux.dev,
	ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org,
	lance.yang@linux.dev, usama.arif@linux.dev, vbabka@kernel.org,
	jannh@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] mm/collapse: add collapse.h for the collapse interface
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:41:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261015044103.58141-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261014171145.3292736-5-kas@kernel.org>


On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) wrote:
>khugepaged.c holds both the users of collapse and the machinery that
>performs it.  The daemon's scan loop, the sysfs tunables, MADV_COLLAPSE's
>entry point and the collapse itself all sit in one file and reach into
>each other freely.  Nothing marks where a user ends and the engine
>begins.
>
>Start drawing that line.
>
>Add mm/collapse.h for what the two sides have to agree on:
>
>  - enum scan_result - what the engine hands back;
>  - struct collapse_control - the state a request carries.
>
>And two constants move with them:
>
>  - KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT -> COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
>  - KHUGEPAGED_MIN_MTHP_ORDER -> COLLAPSE_MIN_MTHP_ORDER.
>
>Neither is a fact about the daemon, so both lose the KHUGEPAGED_ prefix.
>
>No functional change.
>
>Assisted-by: LLM
>Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
>Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
>Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
>---

Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-15  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-14 17:11 [PATCH v5 0/9] mm/collapse: separate a collapse from its callers Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] mm/khugepaged: drop redundant mm_struct pin in madvise_collapse() Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:34   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] mm/khugepaged: count collapses where khugepaged makes them Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:36   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] mm/khugepaged: rename mthp_present_ptes bitmap to eligible_ptes Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:38   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] mm/collapse: add collapse.h for the collapse interface Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:41   ` Lance Yang [this message]
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] mm/collapse: state what a collapse may do in the policy Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:44   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] mm/collapse: drop the collapse_possible() wrapper Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:45   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] mm/collapse: name the per-table scan reset for what it resets Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  4:46   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] mm/collapse: call collapse_file() from collapse_single_pmd() Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  5:39   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-15  7:21   ` Baolin Wang
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] mm/collapse: separate scanning a PTE table from collapsing it Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-15  5:43   ` Lance Yang
2026-10-14 21:16 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] mm/collapse: separate a collapse from its callers Andrew Morton

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