From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
baohua@kernel.org, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
dev.jain@arm.com, hughd@google.com, ioworker0@gmail.com,
kirill@shutemov.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, mpenttil@redhat.com, npache@redhat.com,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, ziy@nvidia.com, richard.weiyang@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-new 1/1] mm/khugepaged: abort collapse scan on non-swap entries
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:47:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69621b58-5142-48ea-9dd8-6baed69e50f8@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282de5a-3dce-443d-91d1-111103140973@redhat.com>
On 2025/9/24 18:10, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 24.09.25 12:02, Lance Yang wrote:
>> From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
>>
>> The existing check in hpage_collapse_scan_pmd() is specific to uffd-wp
>> markers. Other special markers (e.g., GUARD, POISONED) would not be
>> caught
>> early, leading to failures deeper in the swap-in logic.
>>
>> hpage_collapse_scan_pmd()
>> `- collapse_huge_page()
>> `- __collapse_huge_page_swapin() -> fails!
>>
>> As David suggested[1], this patch skips any such non-swap entries early.
>> If a special marker is found, the scan is aborted immediately with the
>> SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT result, as Lorenzo suggested[2], avoiding wasted
>> work.
>
> Note that I suggested to skip all non-present entries except swap
> entries, which includes migration entries, hwpoisoned entries etc.
Oops, I completely misunderstood your suggestion :(
It should be to handle all special non-present entries (migration,
hwpoison, markers), not just a specific type of marker ...
How about this version, which handles all non-swap entries as you
suggested?
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 7ab2d1a42df3..27f432e7f07c 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1284,7 +1284,23 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct
mm_struct *mm,
for (addr = start_addr, _pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
_pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
pte_t pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
- if (is_swap_pte(pteval)) {
+ if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
+ ++none_or_zero;
+ if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) &&
+ (!cc->is_khugepaged ||
+ none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none)) {
+ continue;
+ } else {
+ result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
+ count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
+ goto out_unmap;
+ }
+ } else if (!pte_present(pteval)) {
+ if (non_swap_entry(pte_to_swp_entry(pteval))) {
+ result = SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT;
+ goto out_unmap;
+ }
+
++unmapped;
if (!cc->is_khugepaged ||
unmapped <= khugepaged_max_ptes_swap) {
@@ -1293,7 +1309,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct
mm_struct *mm,
* enabled swap entries. Please see
* comment below for pte_uffd_wp().
*/
- if (pte_swp_uffd_wp_any(pteval)) {
+ if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(pteval)) {
result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP;
goto out_unmap;
}
@@ -1304,18 +1320,6 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct
mm_struct *mm,
goto out_unmap;
}
}
- if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
- ++none_or_zero;
- if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) &&
- (!cc->is_khugepaged ||
- none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none)) {
- continue;
- } else {
- result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
- count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
- goto out_unmap;
- }
- }
if (pte_uffd_wp(pteval)) {
/*
* Don't collapse the page if any of the small
---
Thanks,
Lance
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 10:02 [PATCH mm-new 1/1] mm/khugepaged: abort collapse scan on non-swap entries Lance Yang
2025-09-24 10:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 10:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-24 10:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 11:47 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-09-29 10:10 ` Lance Yang
2025-09-29 10:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-29 10:39 ` Lance Yang
2025-09-24 10:10 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
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