[PATCH v4 1/7] mm/khugepaged: refactor per-scan state clearing into collapse_control_init_scan()

From: Nico Pache (Red Hat)

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 08:51:40 EST


Extract the repeated clearing of node_load, alloc_nmask, and
mthp_present_ptes into a helper to reduce duplication in
collapse_scan_pmd() and collapse_scan_file(). Althought file scans do not
current use the bitmap, they will in the future, and clearing it now is
harmless.

Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b237f6e7662a..1e26ea97381a 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -629,6 +629,13 @@ void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
}

+static void collapse_control_init_scan(struct collapse_control *cc)
+{
+ memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
+ nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
+ bitmap_zero(cc->mthp_present_ptes, MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE);
+}
+
static void release_pte_folio(struct folio *folio)
{
node_stat_mod_folio(folio,
@@ -1617,9 +1624,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto out;
}

- bitmap_zero(cc->mthp_present_ptes, MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE);
- memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
- nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
+ collapse_control_init_scan(cc);

enabled_orders = collapse_possible_orders(vma, vma->vm_flags, tva_flags);

@@ -2691,8 +2696,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,

present = 0;
swap = 0;
- memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
- nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
+ collapse_control_init_scan(cc);
rcu_read_lock();
xas_for_each(&xas, folio, start + HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) {
if (xas_retry(&xas, folio))

--
2.55.0