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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


  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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