[PATCH v2 1/2] mm/mm_slot.h: add a helper function mm_slot_remove

From: xu.xin16

Date: Mon Jul 13 2026 - 02:38:14 EST


From: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>

Both THP and KSM manage per-mm scanning slots using the mm_slot
structure. The slot is kept in a hash table and a list, and removal from
both containers requires the same two operations: hash_del() and
list_del().

Introduce mm_slot_remove() to abstract the common hash_del() + list_del()
sequence used in both khugepaged and KSM.

No functional change is intended.

Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 6 ++----
mm/ksm.c | 9 +++------
mm/mm_slot.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 58e14d1543ec..5f6eb1bd9a67 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -606,8 +606,7 @@ void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
slot = mm_slot_lookup(mm_slots_hash, mm);
if (slot && khugepaged_scan.mm_slot != slot) {
- hash_del(&slot->hash);
- list_del(&slot->mm_node);
+ mm_slot_remove(slot);
free = 1;
}
spin_unlock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
@@ -1802,8 +1801,7 @@ static void collect_mm_slot(struct mm_slot *slot)

if (collapse_test_exit(mm)) {
/* free mm_slot */
- hash_del(&slot->hash);
- list_del(&slot->mm_node);
+ mm_slot_remove(slot);

/*
* Not strictly needed because the mm exited already.
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 2791ce5bd44b..443dab513da6 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1257,8 +1257,7 @@ static int unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(void)
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) {
- hash_del(&mm_slot->slot.hash);
- list_del(&mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
+ mm_slot_remove(&mm_slot->slot);
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);

mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
@@ -2772,8 +2771,7 @@ static struct ksm_rmap_item *scan_get_next_rmap_item(struct page **page)
* or when all VM_MERGEABLE areas have been unmapped (and
* mmap_lock then protects against race with MADV_MERGEABLE).
*/
- hash_del(&mm_slot->slot.hash);
- list_del(&mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
+ mm_slot_remove(&mm_slot->slot);
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);

mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
@@ -3116,8 +3114,7 @@ void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
if (ksm_scan.mm_slot == mm_slot)
goto unlock;
if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) {
- hash_del(&slot->hash);
- list_del(&slot->mm_node);
+ mm_slot_remove(slot);
easy_to_free = 1;
} else {
list_move(&slot->mm_node,
diff --git a/mm/mm_slot.h b/mm/mm_slot.h
index 83f18ed1c4bd..5de3e91d86b4 100644
--- a/mm/mm_slot.h
+++ b/mm/mm_slot.h
@@ -52,4 +52,9 @@ static inline void mm_slot_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *objp)
hash_add(_hashtable, &_mm_slot->hash, (unsigned long)_mm); \
})

+static inline void mm_slot_remove(struct mm_slot *slot)
+{
+ hash_del(&slot->hash);
+ list_del(&slot->mm_node);
+}
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_SLOT_H */
--
2.25.1