From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
david@kernel.org, chrisl@kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com,
ljs@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
willy@infradead.org, youngjun.park@lge.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
riel@surriel.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, alex@ghiti.fr,
kas@kernel.org, baohua@kernel.org, dev.jain@arm.com,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, npache@redhat.com,
Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
lance.yang@linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nphamcs@gmail.com, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com,
kernel-team@meta.com, Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/11] mm: handle PMD swap entries in non-present PMD walkers
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 10:38:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703173903.3789516-7-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703173903.3789516-1-usama.arif@linux.dev>
Teach the remaining non-present PMD walkers about swap entries,
mirroring the PTE-level equivalents.
smaps_pmd_entry() accounts swap and swap_pss via a new shared
smaps_account_swap() helper used by both PTE and PMD paths.
move_soft_dirty_pmd(), clear_soft_dirty_pmd(), and make_uffd_wp_pmd(),
pagemap_pmd_range_thp() and change_huge_pmd() handle swap entries
alongside migration entries.
hmm_vma_handle_absent_pmd() faults in PMD swap entries via
hmm_vma_fault() instead of returning -EFAULT. The first per-page
handle_mm_fault() call triggers do_huge_pmd_swap_page(), which maps
the entire folio; subsequent calls become harmless
huge_pmd_set_accessed() and the walker retries with a present PMD.
madvise_free_huge_pmd() handles PMD swap entries directly: for a
full-range MADV_FREE it clears the PMD, frees the deposited page
table, and releases the swap slots; for a partial range it splits to
PTE swap entries. Without this, MADV_FREE silently becomes a no-op
on swapped-out THPs, leaking swap slots.
zap_huge_pmd() frees swap slots via swap_put_entries_direct(),
matching zap_nonpresent_ptes().
change_non_present_huge_pmd() skips write-permission changes for swap
entries and only updates uffd_wp, matching change_softleaf_pte().
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() skips PMD swap entries early.
MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT operate on resident folios, so a swapped-out
THP has nothing to deactivate or reclaim; skipping also prevents the
walker from descending into or splitting the PMD swap entry. The locked
THP path also treats a racing PMD swap entry as handled before checking
for other non-present PMD types.
mincore_pte_range() routes the pmd_trans_huge_lock() branch through
mincore_swap() for non-present PMDs, matching how the PTE path
already calls mincore_swap() for non-present PTEs. Without this a
swapped-out PMD-mapped THP would be reported as resident, because
pmd_is_huge() (and therefore pmd_trans_huge_lock()) accepts any
non-present non-none PMD and the old branch unconditionally did
memset(vec, 1, nr). mincore_swap() returns 1 for migration /
device-private entries (preserving the prior behavior for those)
and checks swap-cache residency for swap entries.
queue_folios_pmd() in mempolicy silently skips swap entries, matching
the PTE walker which only counts migration entries as failures.
Without this, mbind(MPOL_MF_STRICT) would spuriously return -EIO on
a swapped-out THP.
check_pmd_state() in khugepaged returns SCAN_PMD_MAPPED for PMD swap
entries, treating a swapped-out THP as still being a THP from
khugepaged's perspective and matching the existing migration-entry
handling.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
mm/hmm.c | 3 ++-
mm/huge_memory.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
mm/khugepaged.c | 6 +++++
mm/madvise.c | 14 ++++++++++-
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 ++
mm/mincore.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
7 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 1fb5acd88ad0..f85899eec80f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -1046,6 +1046,23 @@ static void smaps_pte_hole_lookup(unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
#endif
}
+static void smaps_account_swap(struct mem_size_stats *mss,
+ softleaf_t entry, unsigned long size)
+{
+ int mapcount;
+
+ mss->swap += size;
+ mapcount = swp_swapcount(entry);
+ if (mapcount >= 2) {
+ u64 pss_delta = (u64)size << PSS_SHIFT;
+
+ do_div(pss_delta, mapcount);
+ mss->swap_pss += pss_delta;
+ } else {
+ mss->swap_pss += (u64)size << PSS_SHIFT;
+ }
+}
+
static void smaps_pte_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
struct mm_walk *walk)
{
@@ -1067,18 +1084,7 @@ static void smaps_pte_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pte(ptent);
if (softleaf_is_swap(entry)) {
- int mapcount;
-
- mss->swap += PAGE_SIZE;
- mapcount = swp_swapcount(entry);
- if (mapcount >= 2) {
- u64 pss_delta = (u64)PAGE_SIZE << PSS_SHIFT;
-
- do_div(pss_delta, mapcount);
- mss->swap_pss += pss_delta;
- } else {
- mss->swap_pss += (u64)PAGE_SIZE << PSS_SHIFT;
- }
+ smaps_account_swap(mss, entry, PAGE_SIZE);
} else if (softleaf_has_pfn(entry)) {
if (softleaf_is_device_private(entry))
present = true;
@@ -1108,9 +1114,13 @@ static void smaps_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
if (pmd_present(*pmd)) {
page = vm_normal_page_pmd(vma, addr, *pmd);
present = true;
- } else if (unlikely(thp_migration_supported())) {
+ } else {
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(*pmd);
+ if (softleaf_is_swap(entry)) {
+ smaps_account_swap(mss, entry, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+ return;
+ }
if (softleaf_has_pfn(entry))
page = softleaf_to_page(entry);
}
@@ -1752,7 +1762,7 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd = pmd_clear_soft_dirty(pmd);
set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
- } else if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd)) {
+ } else if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd) || pmd_is_swap_entry(pmd)) {
pmd = pmd_swp_clear_soft_dirty(pmd);
set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
}
@@ -2112,7 +2122,8 @@ static int pagemap_pmd_range_thp(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
flags |= PM_UFFD_WP;
if (pm->show_pfn)
frame = pmd_pfn(pmd) + idx;
- } else if (thp_migration_supported()) {
+ } else if (pmd_is_swap_entry(pmd) ||
+ (thp_migration_supported() && pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd))) {
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(pmd);
unsigned long offset;
@@ -2550,7 +2561,7 @@ static void make_uffd_wp_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
old = pmdp_invalidate_ad(vma, addr, pmdp);
pmd = pmd_mkuffd_wp(old);
set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
- } else if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd)) {
+ } else if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd) || pmd_is_swap_entry(pmd)) {
pmd = pmd_swp_mkuffd_wp(pmd);
set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
}
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 4f3f627d2b47..c5356910c580 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ static int hmm_vma_handle_absent_pmd(struct mm_walk *walk, unsigned long start,
required_fault = hmm_range_need_fault(hmm_vma_walk, hmm_pfns,
npages, 0);
if (required_fault) {
- if (softleaf_is_device_private(entry))
+ if (softleaf_is_device_private(entry) ||
+ softleaf_is_swap(entry))
return hmm_vma_fault(addr, end, required_fault, walk);
else
return -EFAULT;
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 69e4e09ac1f6..4cbd6123bf18 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2312,6 +2312,14 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return 0;
}
+static inline void zap_deposited_table(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+ pgtable_t pgtable;
+
+ pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, pmd);
+ pte_free(mm, pgtable);
+ mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm);
+}
/*
* Return true if we do MADV_FREE successfully on entire pmd page.
* Otherwise, return false.
@@ -2336,8 +2344,23 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
goto out;
if (unlikely(!pmd_present(orig_pmd))) {
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(orig_pmd)) {
+ if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ __split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, false);
+ goto out_unlocked;
+ }
+ softleaf_t sl = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
+
+ pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+ zap_deposited_table(mm, pmd);
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ swap_put_entries_direct(sl, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+ add_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS, -HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+ return true;
+ }
VM_BUG_ON(thp_migration_supported() &&
- !pmd_is_migration_entry(orig_pmd));
+ !pmd_is_migration_entry(orig_pmd));
goto out;
}
@@ -2386,15 +2409,6 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return ret;
}
-static inline void zap_deposited_table(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
-{
- pgtable_t pgtable;
-
- pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, pmd);
- pte_free(mm, pgtable);
- mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm);
-}
-
static void zap_huge_pmd_folio(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd_t pmdval, struct folio *folio, bool is_present)
{
@@ -2487,6 +2501,16 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
arch_check_zapped_pmd(vma, orig_pmd);
tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(orig_pmd)) {
+ softleaf_t sl = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
+
+ zap_deposited_table(mm, pmd);
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ swap_put_entries_direct(sl, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+ add_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS, -HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+ return true;
+ }
+
is_present = pmd_present(orig_pmd);
folio = normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd(vma, addr, orig_pmd, is_present);
has_deposit = has_deposited_pgtable(vma, orig_pmd, folio);
@@ -2519,7 +2543,8 @@ static inline int pmd_move_must_withdraw(spinlock_t *new_pmd_ptl,
static pmd_t move_soft_dirty_pmd(pmd_t pmd)
{
if (pgtable_supports_soft_dirty()) {
- if (unlikely(pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd)))
+ if (unlikely(pmd_is_migration_entry(pmd) ||
+ pmd_is_swap_entry(pmd)))
pmd = pmd_swp_mksoft_dirty(pmd);
else if (pmd_present(pmd))
pmd = pmd_mksoft_dirty(pmd);
@@ -2599,7 +2624,14 @@ static void change_non_present_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
pmd_t newpmd;
VM_WARN_ON(!pmd_is_valid_softleaf(*pmd));
- if (softleaf_is_migration_write(entry)) {
+
+ /*
+ * PMD swap entries don't encode write permission in the entry type,
+ * so only uffd_wp flag changes apply. No folio lookup needed.
+ */
+ if (softleaf_is_swap(entry)) {
+ newpmd = *pmd;
+ } else if (softleaf_is_migration_write(entry)) {
const struct folio *folio = softleaf_to_folio(entry);
/*
@@ -2658,7 +2690,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!ptl)
return 0;
- if (thp_migration_supported() && pmd_is_valid_softleaf(*pmd)) {
+ if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(*pmd)) {
change_non_present_huge_pmd(mm, addr, pmd, uffd_wp,
uffd_wp_resolve);
goto unlock;
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..8c10e7e6fc0d 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,12 @@ static inline enum scan_result check_pmd_state(pmd_t *pmd)
*/
if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmde))
return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
+ /*
+ * A PMD-mapped THP that has been swapped out is still a THP from
+ * khugepaged's perspective; treat it like a present huge PMD.
+ */
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(pmde))
+ return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
if (!pmd_present(pmde))
return SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 9292f60b19aa..0d6aa0608f70 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -374,6 +374,15 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
!can_do_file_pageout(vma);
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ /*
+ * Swapped-out THPs have no resident folio to deactivate or reclaim.
+ * Avoid descending into or splitting a PMD swap entry.
+ */
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(*pmd)) {
+ walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
pmd_t orig_pmd;
unsigned long next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -384,6 +393,9 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
return 0;
orig_pmd = *pmd;
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(orig_pmd))
+ goto huge_unlock;
+
if (is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd))
goto huge_unlock;
@@ -665,7 +677,7 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
int nr, max_nr;
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
- if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
+ if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_is_swap_entry(*pmd))
if (madvise_free_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr, next))
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index bba65898aee1..584ce81d4781 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -658,6 +658,8 @@ static void queue_folios_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, struct mm_walk *walk)
qp->nr_failed++;
return;
}
+ if (unlikely(pmd_is_swap_entry(*pmd)))
+ return;
folio = pmd_folio(*pmd);
if (is_huge_zero_folio(folio)) {
walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE;
diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 53b982803771..ddf7c96964b0 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -99,6 +99,41 @@ static unsigned char mincore_swap(swp_entry_t entry, bool shmem)
return present;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+static void mincore_pmd_swap(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned long addr,
+ unsigned long end, unsigned char *vec)
+{
+ unsigned long haddr = addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
+ unsigned long start = (addr - haddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ struct folio *folio;
+ enum swap_pmd_cache state;
+ int i;
+
+ state = swap_pmd_cache_lookup(entry, &folio);
+ if (state == SWAP_PMD_CACHE_HUGE) {
+ memset(vec, folio_test_uptodate(folio), nr);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (state == SWAP_PMD_CACHE_EMPTY) {
+ memset(vec, 0, nr);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * The PMD swap entry is only a compact encoding for consecutive swap
+ * slots. If the PMD-sized swapcache folio was split, report residency
+ * from the individual slots covered by this mincore() range.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
+ vec[i] = mincore_swap(swp_entry(swp_type(entry),
+ swp_offset(entry) + start + i),
+ false);
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* Later we can get more picky about what "in core" means precisely.
* For now, simply check to see if the page is in the page cache,
@@ -172,7 +207,15 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma);
if (ptl) {
- memset(vec, 1, nr);
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(*pmd)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+ mincore_pmd_swap(softleaf_from_pmd(*pmd), addr, end, vec);
+#else
+ memset(vec, 0, nr);
+#endif
+ } else {
+ memset(vec, 1, nr);
+ }
spin_unlock(ptl);
goto out;
}
--
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-03 17:38 [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: PMD-level swap entries for anonymous THPs Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mm: add PMD swap entry detection support Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mm: add PMD swap entry splitting support Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mm: handle PMD swap entries in fork path Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] mm: zswap: add range lookup for large-folio swapin Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] mm: swap in PMD swap entries as whole THPs during swapoff Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` Usama Arif [this message]
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] mm: handle PMD swap entries in MADV_WILLNEED Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] mm: handle PMD swap entries in UFFDIO_MOVE Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] mm: handle PMD swap entry faults on swap-in Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: install PMD swap entries on swap-out Usama Arif
2026-07-03 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] selftests/mm: add PMD swap entry tests Usama Arif
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