[PATCH 1/4] mm: generalize vmemmap remap architecture support

From: Muchun Song

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 09:44:34 EST


ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP is named after its first user, but
the underlying requirement is not HugeTLB-specific. Generic MM only needs
to know whether an architecture can safely remap populated vmemmap PTEs at
run time.

Rename the architecture opt-in to ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP and make
HugeTLB vmemmap optimization depend on that generic capability. This also
prepares for FS-DAX vmemmap optimization, which relies on the same runtime
remap support.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
fs/Kconfig | 2 +-
mm/Kconfig | 6 ++++--
5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
index 9c5def706222..e9bf19172e86 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ config LOONGARCH
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SMT if SMP
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_MC if SMP
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP if 64BIT
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ config LOONGARCH
select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if HAVE_EBPF_JIT
select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT
select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
- select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if 64BIT
select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 5965666194b0..3614001cafdb 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ config RISCV
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK if HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SCHED_MC if SMP
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if 64BIT
select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
@@ -88,7 +89,6 @@ config RISCV
select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP
- select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP
select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE if ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index a8c3b3d31a27..53f72d1500c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP if X86_64
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
@@ -148,7 +149,6 @@ config X86
select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if X86_64
select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64
- select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64
select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64
select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
select ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index d1c210c6508f..655795fbbd1b 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE

config HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
- depends on ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP
+ depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP
depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

config HUGETLB_PMD_PAGE_TABLE_SHARING
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index c1ddf59c0d71..7ec734d89beb 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -463,12 +463,14 @@ config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

#
# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred
-# to enable the feature of HugeTLB/dev_dax vmemmap optimization.
+# to enable the feature of dev_dax vmemmap optimization.
#
config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP
bool

-config ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP
+# Select this from architectures where generic MM can safely remap populated
+# vmemmap PTEs at run time.
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_VMEMMAP_REMAP
bool

config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
--
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