Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] mm/collapse: add collapse.h for the collapse interface

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 9/16/26 11:31, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
> From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
> 
> 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.
> 

These look a bit odd when thinking about the "user" aspect. These are rather
collapse internals?

> Neither is a fact about the daemon, so both lose the KHUGEPAGED_ prefix.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

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Cheers,

David