From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract young page check into collapse_is_referenced() helper
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:41:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aae24d39-9440-46dc-988c-4dff2c8c1069@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ccdda5c-6aba-4375-8a74-f29659d3f89b@kernel.org>
On 7/29/26 11:41, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 7/15/26 04:59, Nico Pache wrote:
>> This change deduplicates the "is this PTE/folio referenced enough to be
>> considered for a collapse" condition that was repeated in both
>> __collapse_huge_page_isolate() and collapse_scan_pmd(), extracting it into
>> a single inline helper function.
>>
>> Also move the comment and use it as the function header. While we are at
>> it, updated the comment to clarify that a young pte is a recently accessed
>> one.
>>
>> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
>> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> mm/khugepaged.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> index 6ec0812210b6..e92e2b928f17 100644
>> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
>> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> @@ -672,6 +672,23 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> +/*
>> + * collapse_is_referenced() - Check for enough referenced PTEs to justify collapsing
>> + *
>> + * If collapse was initiated by khugepaged, check that the page has been
>> + * recently accessed (young pte) to justify collapsing the page.
>> + *
>> + * Return: true if the page has been recently accessed.
>> + */
>> +static inline bool collapse_is_referenced(struct collapse_control *cc, pte_t pteval,
>> + struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
>
>
> The name is absolutely confusing. The "collapse" is referenced? Hugh? :)
"Huh" :D
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-15 2:59 [PATCH v2 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Nico Pache
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] mm/khugepaged: refactor per-scan state clearing into collapse_control_init_scan() Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract young page check into collapse_is_referenced() helper Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:41 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 9:41 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-29 9:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mm/khugepaged: introduce a count_collapse_event() helper Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] mm/khugepaged: fix outdated comments Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mm/khugepaged: Refactor the PTE state checks into a helper Nico Pache
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 2:59 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mm: Documentation: clarify where the mTHP stats live Nico Pache
2026-07-29 9:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Andrew Morton
2026-07-15 5:59 ` Nico Pache
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