From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
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>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] mm/khugepaged: factor out and simplify dirty/writeback handling
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:29:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720142913.846902-4-pfalcato@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260720142913.846902-1-pfalcato@suse.de>
Dirty/writeback folios can easily share most of the branch. These checks
are still gated under !is_shmem due to shmem not really having issues
with dirty folios.
While here, reflow the comment.
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 4cc6917a55c7..ed5d23317177 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2262,6 +2262,7 @@ static enum scan_result prepare_collapse_file_folio(pgoff_t index, struct collap
enum scan_result result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
const int is_shmem = state->is_shmem;
struct folio *folio;
+ bool dirty;
folio = collapse_read_folio(index, state);
if (!folio)
@@ -2278,39 +2279,40 @@ static enum scan_result prepare_collapse_file_folio(pgoff_t index, struct collap
goto xa_unlocked;
}
- if (is_shmem) {
- if (folio_trylock(folio)) {
- folio_get(folio);
- } else {
- result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
- goto xa_locked;
- }
- } else { /* !is_shmem */
- if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
+ if (!is_shmem) {
+ dirty = folio_test_dirty(folio);
+ if (dirty || folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
/*
- * This page is dirty because it hasn't
- * been flushed since first write.
+ * This folio is either dirty or under writeback.
+ * khugepaged cannot operate on such folios.
*
- * Trigger async flush for read-only files and
- * hope the writeback is done when khugepaged
- * revisits this page. Writable files can have
- * their folios dirty at any time; blindly
- * flushing them would cause undesirable
+ * For dirty folios, trigger async flush for
+ * read-only files and hope the writeback is done
+ * when khugepaged revisits this page. Writable
+ * files can have their folios dirty at any time;
+ * blindly flushing them would cause undesirable
* system-wide writeback.
*
* This is a one-off situation. We are not
* forcing writeback in loop.
*/
xas_unlock_irq(state->xas);
- if (!inode_is_open_for_write(mapping->host))
+ if (dirty && !inode_is_open_for_write(mapping->host))
filemap_flush(mapping);
result = SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK;
goto xa_unlocked;
- } else if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
- xas_unlock_irq(state->xas);
- result = SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK;
- goto xa_unlocked;
- } else if (folio_trylock(folio)) {
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (is_shmem) {
+ if (folio_trylock(folio)) {
+ folio_get(folio);
+ } else {
+ result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
+ goto xa_locked;
+ }
+ } else { /* !is_shmem */
+ if (folio_trylock(folio)) {
folio_get(folio);
} else {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 14:29 [PATCH 0/8] mm/khugepaged: collapse_file() cleanups Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm/khugepaged: separate out windy folio logic from collapse_file Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 15:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-20 15:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm/khugepaged: factor out page cache folio reading Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 16:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-20 14:29 ` Pedro Falcato [this message]
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/khugepaged: simplify prepare folio locking and exit paths Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/khugepaged: add kerneldoc to prepare_collapse_file_folio() Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm/khugepaged: hoist isolation into collapse_isolate_folio() Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm/khugepaged: hoist more code " Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 14:29 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm/khugepaged: fix and flesh out try_to_unmap_flush() comment Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 15:21 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm/khugepaged: collapse_file() cleanups Nico Pache
2026-07-20 19:49 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-20 20:14 ` Nico Pache
2026-07-21 7:54 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-21 8:24 ` Nico Pache
2026-07-21 9:38 ` [syzbot ci] " syzbot ci
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