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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2/7/26 23:01, Barry Song wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 5:38 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: >> >> On 2/7/26 14:51, Lance Yang wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Good catch! >>> >> >> Good point! >> >>> >>> Right. When the VMA has VM_DROPPABLE, we would drop the lazyfree folio >>> regardless of whether it (or the PTE) is dirty in try_to_unmap_one(). >>> >>> So, IMHO, we could go with: >>> >>> cc->is_khugepaged && folio_test_lazyfree(folio) && >>> (!pte_dirty(pteval) || (vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)) >> >> Hm. In a VM_DROPPABLE mapping all folios should be marked as lazy-free >> (see folio_add_new_anon_rmap()). >> >> The new (collapse) folio will also be marked lazy (due to >> folio_add_new_anon_rmap()) free and can just get dropped any time. >> >> So likely we should just not skip collapse for lazyfree folios in >> VM_DROPPABLE mappings? > > Maybe change “just not skip” to “just skip”? > > If the goal is to avoid the collapse overhead for folios that are > about to be dropped, we might consider skipping collapse for the > entire VMA？ If there is no memory pressure in the system, why wouldn't you just want to collapse in a VM_DROPPABLE region? "about to be dropped" only applies once there is actual memory pressure. If not, these pages stick around forever. -- Cheers, David