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From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Cc: ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
	Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
	dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, ioworker0@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH mm-new 1/3] mm/khugepaged: skip unsuitable VMAs earlier in khugepaged_scan_mm_slot()
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:35:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250914143547.27687-2-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250914143547.27687-1-lance.yang@linux.dev>

From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>

Let's skip unsuitable VMAs early in the khugepaged scan; specifically,
mlocked VMAs should not be touched.

Note that the only other user of the VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED mask is
 __thp_vma_allowable_orders(), which is also used by the MADV_COLLAPSE
path. Since MADV_COLLAPSE has different rules (e.g., for mlocked VMAs), we
cannot simply make the shared mask stricter as that would break it.

So, we also introduce a new VM_NO_THP_COLLAPSE mask for that helper,
leaving the stricter checks to be applied only within the khugepaged path
itself.

Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  6 +++++-
 mm/huge_memory.c   |  2 +-
 mm/khugepaged.c    | 14 +++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index be3e6fb4d0db..cb54d94b2343 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -505,7 +505,11 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_REMAP_FLAGS (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP)
 
 /* This mask prevents VMA from being scanned with khugepaged */
-#define VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED (VM_SPECIAL | VM_HUGETLB)
+#define VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED \
+	(VM_SPECIAL | VM_HUGETLB | VM_LOCKED_MASK | VM_NOHUGEPAGE)
+
+/* This mask prevents VMA from being collapsed by any THP path */
+#define VM_NO_THP_COLLAPSE	(VM_SPECIAL | VM_HUGETLB)
 
 /* This mask defines which mm->def_flags a process can inherit its parent */
 #define VM_INIT_DEF_MASK	VM_NOHUGEPAGE
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index d6fc669e11c1..2e91526a037f 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ unsigned long __thp_vma_allowable_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	 * Must be checked after dax since some dax mappings may have
 	 * VM_MIXEDMAP set.
 	 */
-	if (!in_pf && !smaps && (vm_flags & VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED))
+	if (!in_pf && !smaps && (vm_flags & VM_NO_THP_COLLAPSE))
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 7c5ff1b23e93..e54f99bb0b57 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -345,6 +345,17 @@ struct attribute_group khugepaged_attr_group = {
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
+/**
+ * khugepaged_should_scan_vma - check if a VMA is a candidate for collapse
+ * @vm_flags: The flags of the VMA to check.
+ *
+ * Returns: true if the VMA should be scanned by khugepaged, false otherwise.
+ */
+static inline bool khugepaged_should_scan_vma(vm_flags_t vm_flags)
+{
+	return !(vm_flags & VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED);
+}
+
 int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		     vm_flags_t *vm_flags, int advice)
 {
@@ -2443,7 +2454,8 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
 			progress++;
 			break;
 		}
-		if (!thp_vma_allowable_order(vma, vma->vm_flags, TVA_KHUGEPAGED, PMD_ORDER)) {
+		if (!khugepaged_should_scan_vma(vma->vm_flags) ||
+		    !thp_vma_allowable_order(vma, vma->vm_flags, TVA_KHUGEPAGED, PMD_ORDER)) {
 skip:
 			progress++;
 			continue;
-- 
2.49.0



  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-14 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-14 14:35 [PATCH mm-new 0/3] mm/khugepaged: optimize collapse candidate detection Lance Yang
2025-09-14 14:35 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-09-14 16:16   ` [PATCH mm-new 1/3] mm/khugepaged: skip unsuitable VMAs earlier in khugepaged_scan_mm_slot() Dev Jain
2025-09-15  3:02     ` Lance Yang
2025-09-16  5:32   ` Hugh Dickins
2025-09-16  6:21     ` Lance Yang
2025-09-16  6:42       ` Hugh Dickins
2025-09-16  7:05         ` Lance Yang
2025-09-16  9:29       ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-16  9:39         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-09-16  9:48           ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-16  9:58             ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-09-16 10:00               ` Lance Yang
2025-09-16  9:59           ` Lance Yang
2025-09-14 14:35 ` [PATCH mm-new 2/3] mm: clean up and expose is_guard_pte_marker() Lance Yang
2025-09-14 16:38   ` Dev Jain
2025-09-15  4:24     ` Lance Yang
2025-09-15 13:54   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-09-15 14:26     ` Lance Yang
2025-09-17 10:32   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-14 14:35 ` [PATCH mm-new 3/3] mm/khugepaged: abort collapse scan on guard PTEs Lance Yang
2025-09-14 17:03   ` Dev Jain
2025-09-15  3:36     ` Lance Yang
2025-09-15 14:08   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-09-15 14:42     ` Lance Yang

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