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From: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org
Cc: usama.arif@linux.dev, alex@ghiti.fr, ziy@nvidia.com,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, liam@infradead.org,
	npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com,
	baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, vbabka@kernel.org,
	rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
	willy@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm/memory: add anonymous mTHP folios to deferred split list
Date: Tue,  7 Jul 2026 13:17:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707201735.4113107-3-joannelkoong@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260707201735.4113107-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com>

Unlike for PMD-sized folios, an anonymous mTHP folio doesn't get added
to the deferred split list at fault or collapse time. As a result, a
fully mapped mTHP folio that is mostly zero-filled doesn't get split by
the deferred split shrinker when the system is under memory pressure.

Add anonymous mTHP folios to the deferred split list so that if there's
memory pressure, a zero-filled mTHP can be split with its zero pages
remapped to the shared zero page and then reclaimed.

To minimize overhead on the common order-0 fault path, the
deferred_split_folio() call is guarded by an inline folio_test_large()
check.

Suggested-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6637c5b13c9b..441d918e3dc0 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -5259,6 +5259,8 @@ void map_anon_folio_pte_nopf(struct folio *folio, pte_t *pte,
 	folio_add_lru_vma(folio, vma);
 	set_ptes(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, entry, nr_pages);
 	update_mmu_cache_range(NULL, vma, addr, pte, nr_pages);
+	if (folio_test_large(folio))
+		deferred_split_folio(folio, false);
 }
 
 static void map_anon_folio_pte_pf(struct folio *folio, pte_t *pte,
-- 
2.52.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-07 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-07 20:17 [PATCH v1 0/2] mm: split underused anonymous mTHP folios Joanne Koong
2026-07-07 20:17 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/huge_memory: extend thp_underused() to " Joanne Koong
2026-07-08  4:03   ` Joanne Koong
2026-07-07 20:17 ` Joanne Koong [this message]
2026-07-08  7:56   ` [PATCH v1 2/2] mm/memory: add anonymous mTHP folios to deferred split list David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08  9:58     ` Usama Arif
2026-07-08 17:52     ` Joanne Koong
2026-07-08  7:46 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] mm: split underused anonymous mTHP folios David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 18:19   ` Joanne Koong

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