Linux Documentation
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: "Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@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 v4 5/7] mm/khugepaged: Refactor the PTE state checks into a helper
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:51:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <753cb38f-66b4-4bd0-8b53-7480efe30ec3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1371b4d-6e98-4699-8c1b-7612f6d70f02@kernel.org>

> Huh, that looks odd.
> 
> That should just be a VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(true, ..) or sth like that.
> 
> But in collapse_scan_pmd() that warning never existed? So this raises eyebrows.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I'll play with it to see if we can do better and will reply here later.


Okay, I think below is what we should do.

There is one behavioral change: we now longer trace the last folio, which is the right
thing to do IMHO.

And I think there is one fix we should pull out and evaluate first: A zeropage with a
uffd-wp marker is not checked properly, IIUC.


diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 5a06e3942e889..8a223659fce2d 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ struct collapse_control {
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(mthp_present_ptes, MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE);
 };
 
+struct collapse_anon_pte_check_ctx {
+	struct collapse_control *cc;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	unsigned int order;
+	int none_or_zero_ptes;
+	int nonpresent_ptes;
+	int shared_ptes;
+	unsigned int max_ptes_none;
+	int max_ptes_swap;
+	unsigned int max_ptes_shared;
+};
+
 /**
  * struct khugepaged_scan - cursor for scanning
  * @mm_head: the head of the mm list to scan
@@ -696,74 +708,104 @@ static void count_collapse_event(unsigned int order, enum vm_event_item vm_event
 	count_mthp_stat(order, mthp_event);
 }
 
+static enum scan_result collapse_anon_pte_check(pte_t pteval,
+		unsigned long addr, struct collapse_anon_pte_check_ctx *ctx,
+		struct folio **foliop)
+{
+	*foliop = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Don't collapse if any of the small PTEs are armed with uffd
+	 * write protection. Marking the new huge pmd as write protected
+	 * could bring userfault messages that fall outside of the
+	 * registered range.
+	 */
+	if ((pte_present(pteval) && pte_uffd(pteval)) ||
+	    (!pte_present(pteval) && pte_swp_uffd_any(pteval)))
+		return SCAN_PTE_UFFD;
+
+	if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
+		if (++ctx->none_or_zero_ptes > ctx->max_ptes_none) {
+			count_collapse_event(ctx->order, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
+					     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE);
+			return SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
+		}
+		return SCAN_SUCCEED;
+	}
+	if (!pte_present(pteval)) {
+		if (ctx->max_ptes_swap < 0)
+			return SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT;
+		if (++ctx->nonpresent_ptes > ctx->max_ptes_swap) {
+			count_collapse_event(ctx->order, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
+					     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP);
+			return SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE;
+		}
+		return SCAN_SUCCEED;
+	}
+
+	*foliop = vm_normal_folio(ctx->vma, addr, pteval);
+	if (unlikely(!*foliop) || unlikely(folio_is_zone_device(*foliop)))
+		return SCAN_PAGE_NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the vma has the VM_DROPPABLE flag, the collapse will
+	 * preserve the lazyfree property without needing to skip.
+	 */
+	if (ctx->cc->is_khugepaged && !(ctx->vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE) &&
+	    folio_test_lazyfree(*foliop) && !pte_dirty(pteval))
+		return SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE;
+
+	if (!folio_test_anon(*foliop))
+		return SCAN_PAGE_ANON;
+
+	if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(*foliop)) {
+		/*
+		 * TODO: Support shared pages without leading to further
+		 * mTHP collapses. Currently bringing in new pages via
+		 * shared may cause a future higher order collapse on a
+		 * rescan of the same range.
+		 */
+		if (++ctx->shared_ptes > ctx->max_ptes_shared) {
+			count_collapse_event(ctx->order, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
+					     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
+			return SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return SCAN_SUCCEED;
+}
+
 static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long start_addr, pte_t *pte, struct collapse_control *cc,
 		unsigned int order, struct list_head *compound_pagelist)
 {
-	const unsigned int max_ptes_none = collapse_max_ptes_none(cc, vma, order);
-	const unsigned int max_ptes_shared = collapse_max_ptes_shared(cc, order);
 	const unsigned long nr_pages = 1UL << order;
-	struct page *page = NULL;
 	struct folio *folio = NULL;
 	unsigned long addr = start_addr;
-	pte_t *_pte;
-	int none_or_zero = 0, shared = 0, referenced = 0;
+	pte_t *_pte, pteval;
+	int referenced = 0;
 	enum scan_result result = SCAN_FAIL;
+	struct collapse_anon_pte_check_ctx ctx = {
+		.cc = cc,
+		.vma = vma,
+		.order = order,
+		.max_ptes_none = collapse_max_ptes_none(cc, vma, order),
+		.max_ptes_swap = -1, /* Don't tolerate any non-present ptes. */
+		.max_ptes_shared = collapse_max_ptes_shared(cc, order),
+	};
 
 	for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + nr_pages;
 	     _pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
-		pte_t pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
-		if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
-			if (++none_or_zero > max_ptes_none) {
-				result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
-				count_collapse_event(order, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
-						     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE);
-				goto out;
-			}
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (!pte_present(pteval)) {
-			result = SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT;
-			goto out;
-		}
-		if (pte_uffd(pteval)) {
-			result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD;
-			goto out;
-		}
-		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pteval);
-		if (unlikely(!page) || unlikely(is_zone_device_page(page))) {
-			result = SCAN_PAGE_NULL;
-			goto out;
-		}
-
-		folio = page_folio(page);
-		VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_anon(folio), folio);
+		pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
 
-		/*
-		 * If the vma has the VM_DROPPABLE flag, the collapse will
-		 * preserve the lazyfree property without needing to skip.
-		 */
-		if (cc->is_khugepaged && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE) &&
-		    folio_test_lazyfree(folio) && !pte_dirty(pteval)) {
-			result = SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE;
+		result = collapse_anon_pte_check(pteval, addr, &ctx, &folio);
+		if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
+			VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(result == SCAN_PAGE_ANON);
 			goto out;
 		}
+		if (!folio)
+			continue;
 
-		/* See collapse_scan_pmd(). */
-		if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) {
-			/*
-			 * TODO: Support shared pages without leading to further
-			 * mTHP collapses. Currently bringing in new pages via
-			 * shared may cause a future higher order collapse on a
-			 * rescan of the same range.
-			 */
-			if (++shared > max_ptes_shared) {
-				result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
-				count_collapse_event(order, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
-						     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
-				goto out;
-			}
-		}
 		/*
 		 * TODO: In some cases of partially-mapped folios, we'd actually
 		 * want to collapse.
@@ -841,13 +883,13 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		result = SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE;
 	} else {
 		result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
-		trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate(folio, none_or_zero,
+		trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate(folio, ctx.none_or_zero_ptes,
 						    referenced, result, order);
 		return result;
 	}
 out:
 	release_pte_pages(pte, _pte, compound_pagelist);
-	trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate(folio, none_or_zero,
+	trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate(folio, ctx.none_or_zero_ptes,
 					    referenced, result, order);
 	return result;
 }
@@ -1613,21 +1655,25 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start_addr,
 		bool *lock_dropped, struct collapse_control *cc)
 {
-	const unsigned int max_ptes_shared = collapse_max_ptes_shared(cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
-	const unsigned int max_ptes_swap = collapse_max_ptes_swap(cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
-	unsigned int max_ptes_none = collapse_max_ptes_none(cc, vma, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
 	enum tva_type tva_flags = cc->is_khugepaged ? TVA_KHUGEPAGED : TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE;
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 	pte_t *pte, *_pte, pteval;
 	int i;
-	int none_or_zero = 0, shared = 0, referenced = 0;
 	enum scan_result result = SCAN_FAIL;
-	struct page *page = NULL;
 	struct folio *folio = NULL;
+	int referenced = 0;
 	unsigned long addr;
 	unsigned long enabled_orders;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
-	int node = NUMA_NO_NODE, unmapped = 0;
+	int node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
+	struct collapse_anon_pte_check_ctx ctx = {
+		.cc = cc,
+		.vma = vma,
+		.order = HPAGE_PMD_ORDER,
+		.max_ptes_none = collapse_max_ptes_none(cc, vma, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER),
+		.max_ptes_swap = collapse_max_ptes_swap(cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER),
+		.max_ptes_shared = collapse_max_ptes_shared(cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER),
+	};
 
 	VM_BUG_ON(start_addr & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
 
@@ -1647,7 +1693,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	 * is then checked again in mthp_collapse() for each attempted order.
 	 */
 	if (enabled_orders != BIT(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER))
-		max_ptes_none = KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
+		ctx.max_ptes_none = KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
 
 	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, start_addr, &ptl);
 	if (!pte) {
@@ -1663,81 +1709,11 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 		cc->progress++;
 
-		if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
-			if (++none_or_zero > max_ptes_none) {
-				result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
-				count_collapse_event(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
-						     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE);
-				goto out_unmap;
-			}
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (!pte_present(pteval)) {
-			if (++unmapped > max_ptes_swap) {
-				result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE;
-				count_collapse_event(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
-						     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP);
-				goto out_unmap;
-			}
-			/*
-			 * Always be strict with uffd-wp
-			 * enabled swap entries.  Please see
-			 * comment below for pte_uffd().
-			 */
-			if (pte_swp_uffd_any(pteval)) {
-				result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD;
-				goto out_unmap;
-			}
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (pte_uffd(pteval)) {
-			/*
-			 * Don't collapse the page if any of the small
-			 * PTEs are armed with uffd write protection.
-			 * Here we can also mark the new huge pmd as
-			 * write protected if any of the small ones is
-			 * marked but that could bring unknown
-			 * userfault messages that falls outside of
-			 * the registered range.  So, just be simple.
-			 */
-			result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD;
-			goto out_unmap;
-		}
-
-		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pteval);
-		if (unlikely(!page) || unlikely(is_zone_device_page(page))) {
-			result = SCAN_PAGE_NULL;
-			goto out_unmap;
-		}
-		folio = page_folio(page);
-
-		/*
-		 * If the vma has the VM_DROPPABLE flag, the collapse will
-		 * preserve the lazyfree property without needing to skip.
-		 */
-		if (cc->is_khugepaged && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE) &&
-		    folio_test_lazyfree(folio) && !pte_dirty(pteval)) {
-			result = SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE;
-			goto out_unmap;
-		}
-
-		if (!folio_test_anon(folio)) {
-			result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON;
+		result = collapse_anon_pte_check(pteval, addr, &ctx, &folio);
+		if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
 			goto out_unmap;
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * We treat a single page as shared if any part of the THP
-		 * is shared.
-		 */
-		if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) {
-			if (++shared > max_ptes_shared) {
-				result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
-				count_collapse_event(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
-						     MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
-				goto out_unmap;
-			}
-		}
+		if (!folio)
+			continue;
 
 		/* Set bit for occupied pages */
 		__set_bit(i, cc->mthp_present_ptes);
@@ -1780,7 +1756,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	}
 	if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
 		   (!referenced ||
-		    (unmapped && referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2))) {
+		    (ctx.nonpresent_ptes && referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2))) {
 		result = SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE;
 	} else {
 		result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
@@ -1791,13 +1767,13 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		/* collapse_huge_page() expects the lock to be dropped before calling */
 		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 		result = mthp_collapse(mm, start_addr, referenced,
-				       unmapped, cc, enabled_orders);
+				       ctx.nonpresent_ptes, cc, enabled_orders);
 		/* mmap_lock was released above, set lock_dropped */
 		*lock_dropped = true;
 	}
 out:
-	trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, folio, referenced,
-				     none_or_zero, result, unmapped);
+	trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, folio, referenced, ctx.none_or_zero_ptes,
+				     result, ctx.nonpresent_ptes);
 	return result;
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0


-- 
Cheers,

David

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11 12:48 [PATCH v4 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] mm/khugepaged: refactor per-scan state clearing into collapse_control_init_scan() Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-12  9:23   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract reference check into folio_pte_referenced() helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 15:47   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-11 20:45   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:19   ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-12  9:25   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] mm/khugepaged: introduce a count_collapse_event() helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:45   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:36   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] mm/khugepaged: fix outdated comments Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:48   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:38   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] mm/khugepaged: Refactor the PTE state checks into a helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-12  2:04   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  8:40   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12  9:51     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-08-12 10:06       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 10:50   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:54   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:21   ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-12 10:51   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] mm: Documentation: clarify where the mTHP stats live Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:54   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12 10:52   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 18:23 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Andrew Morton
2026-08-11 18:55   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=753cb38f-66b4-4bd0-8b53-7480efe30ec3@kernel.org \
    --to=david@kernel.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=baohua@kernel.org \
    --cc=baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com \
    --cc=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=dev.jain@arm.com \
    --cc=lance.yang@linux.dev \
    --cc=liam@infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=ljs@kernel.org \
    --cc=mhocko@suse.com \
    --cc=nico.pache@linux.dev \
    --cc=rppt@kernel.org \
    --cc=ryan.roberts@arm.com \
    --cc=skhan@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=surenb@google.com \
    --cc=usama.arif@linux.dev \
    --cc=vbabka@kernel.org \
    --cc=ziy@nvidia.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox