From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com, david@kernel.org
Cc: ziy@nvidia.com, liam@infradead.org, nico.pache@linux.dev,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org,
lance.yang@linux.dev, usama.arif@linux.dev, kas@kernel.org,
ljs@kernel.org, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:04:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1829ac0d3f38217f031854ff0f40abef614ac0d.1789098446.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
According to Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst, MADV_COLLAPSE is expected to
ignore any THP or mTHP interface settings.
However, after commit 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled()
into shmem_allowable_huge_orders()"), performing MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem
will depend on /sys/.../hugepages-2048kB/shmem_enabled being set to "inherit"
(although that is the default), which can cause MADV_COLLAPSE to fail
unexpectedly.
Fix this by returning the result of shmem_huge_global_enabled() directly
when MADV_COLLAPSE is requested, allowing PMD-order collapse while ignoring
shmem THP/mTHP settings.
Fixes: 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled() into shmem_allowable_huge_orders()")
Reported-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908125105.1510704-7-kirill@shutemov.name/
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
Hi Kiryl,
I did not update the selftests, as I hope this fix will be merged first.
After this fix has landed, I can send a patch to update the selftests.
---
mm/shmem.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index c92ed17dbc4a..b572c60f2af8 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2049,8 +2049,11 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_orders(struct inode *inode,
global_orders = shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, index, write_end,
shmem_huge_force, vma, vm_flags);
- /* Tmpfs huge pages allocation */
- if (!vma || !vma_is_anon_shmem(vma))
+ /*
+ * Tmpfs huge pages allocation or forced collapse ignores
+ * sysfs configs.
+ */
+ if (!vma || !vma_is_anon_shmem(vma) || shmem_huge_force)
return global_orders;
/*
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-11 4:04 Baolin Wang [this message]
2026-09-11 11:37 ` [PATCH] mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-11 14:34 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-11 15:47 ` Lance Yang
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