From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v12 mm-new 13/15] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:37:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251022183717.70829-14-npache@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251022183717.70829-1-npache@redhat.com>
There are cases where, if an attempted collapse fails, all subsequent
orders are guaranteed to also fail. Avoid these collapse attempts by
bailing out early.
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index e2319bfd0065..54f5c7888e46 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1431,10 +1431,39 @@ static int collapse_scan_bitmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
ret = collapse_huge_page(mm, address, referenced,
unmapped, cc, mmap_locked,
order, offset);
- if (ret == SCAN_SUCCEED) {
+
+ /*
+ * Analyze failure reason to determine next action:
+ * - goto next_order: try smaller orders in same region
+ * - continue: try other regions at same order
+ * - break: stop all attempts (system-wide failure)
+ */
+ switch (ret) {
+ /* Cases were we should continue to the next region */
+ case SCAN_SUCCEED:
collapsed += 1UL << order;
+ fallthrough;
+ case SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE:
continue;
+ /* Cases were lower orders might still succeed */
+ case SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE:
+ case SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE:
+ case SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE:
+ case SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE:
+ case SCAN_PAGE_LOCK:
+ case SCAN_PAGE_COUNT:
+ case SCAN_PAGE_LRU:
+ case SCAN_PAGE_NULL:
+ case SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU:
+ case SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT:
+ case SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP:
+ case SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL:
+ goto next_order;
+ /* All other cases should stop collapse attempts */
+ default:
+ break;
}
+ break;
}
next_order:
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-22 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-22 18:37 [PATCH v12 mm-new 00/15] khugepaged: mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 01/15] khugepaged: rename hpage_collapse_* to collapse_* Nico Pache
2025-11-08 1:42 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 02/15] introduce collapse_single_pmd to unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse Nico Pache
2025-10-27 9:00 ` Lance Yang
2025-10-27 15:44 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-08 1:44 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 03/15] khugepaged: generalize hugepage_vma_revalidate for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-10-27 9:02 ` Lance Yang
2025-11-08 1:54 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 04/15] khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio() Nico Pache
2025-10-27 9:05 ` Lance Yang
2025-11-08 2:34 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 05/15] khugepaged: generalize __collapse_huge_page_* for mTHP support Nico Pache
2025-10-27 9:17 ` Lance Yang
2025-10-27 16:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-08 3:01 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 06/15] khugepaged: introduce collapse_max_ptes_none helper function Nico Pache
2025-10-27 17:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 10:09 ` Baolin Wang
2025-10-28 13:57 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-28 17:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 17:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 18:09 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 18:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 18:41 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 15:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-29 18:41 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 21:10 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-30 18:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 20:45 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-28 13:36 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-28 14:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 17:29 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 17:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 18:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 18:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 19:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 2:09 ` Baolin Wang
2025-10-29 2:49 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-29 18:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 21:14 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-30 1:15 ` Baolin Wang
2025-10-29 2:47 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-29 18:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-29 21:23 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-30 10:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-31 11:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 16:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-28 17:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-28 17:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 07/15] khugepaged: generalize collapse_huge_page for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2025-10-27 3:25 ` Baolin Wang
2025-11-06 18:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-07 3:09 ` Dev Jain
2025-11-07 9:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-07 19:33 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 08/15] khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 09/15] khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics Nico Pache
2025-11-06 18:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-07 17:14 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 10/15] khugepaged: improve tracepoints for mTHP orders Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 11/15] khugepaged: introduce collapse_allowable_orders helper function Nico Pache
2025-11-06 18:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-07 18:01 ` Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 12/15] khugepaged: Introduce mTHP collapse support Nico Pache
2025-10-27 6:28 ` Baolin Wang
2025-11-09 2:08 ` Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` Nico Pache [this message]
2025-11-09 2:40 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 13/15] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts Wei Yang
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 14/15] khugepaged: run khugepaged for all orders Nico Pache
2025-10-22 18:37 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 15/15] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2025-10-22 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2025-10-22 20:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-23 8:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-23 8:44 ` Pedro Falcato
2025-10-24 13:54 ` Zach O'Keefe
2025-10-23 23:41 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2025-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH v12 mm-new 00/15] khugepaged: mTHP support Andrew Morton
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