[PATCH mm-unstable v18 07/14] mm/khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders

[Nico Pache]

khugepaged may try to collapse a mTHP to a smaller mTHP, resulting in
some pages being unmapped. Skip these cases until we have a way to check
if its ok to collapse to a smaller mTHP size (like in the case of a
partially mapped folio). This check is also not done during the scan phase
as the current collapse order is unknown at that time.

This patch is inspired by Dev Jain's work on khugepaged mTHP support [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241216165105.56185-11-dev.jain@xxxxxxx/

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index d64f42f66236..928e32a0d4d7 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -689,6 +689,14 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
+		/*
+		 * TODO: In some cases of partially-mapped folios, we'd actually
+		 * want to collapse.
+		 */
+		if (!is_pmd_order(order) && folio_order(folio) >= order) {
+			result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+			goto out;
+		}
 
 		if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
 			struct folio *f;
-- 
2.54.0