[PATCH 11/12] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: unify vmemmap range restoration

From: Muchun Song

Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 08:06:25 EST


Restoring an optimized folio and rolling back a partial optimization
both restore a vmemmap range, but the operation is currently implemented
separately in each path.

Use a single range-restoration path for both cases, making rollback an
explicit bounded form of normal restoration.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 97748a9cefe2..2cfb88dc4fba 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -284,6 +284,18 @@ static int vmemmap_restore_pte(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
return 0;
}

+static inline int vmemmap_restore_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ struct list_head *vmemmap_pages, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ struct vmemmap_remap_walk walk = {
+ .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
+ .vmemmap_pages = vmemmap_pages,
+ .flags = flags,
+ };
+
+ return vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+}
+
/**
* vmemmap_remap_split - split the vmemmap virtual address range [@start, @end)
* backing PMDs of the directmap into PTEs
@@ -342,19 +354,7 @@ static int vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct folio *folio,
return ret;

end = start + walk.nr_walked * PAGE_SIZE;
-
- /*
- * vmemmap_pages contains pages from the previous vmemmap_remap_range()
- * call which failed. These are pages which were removed from
- * the vmemmap. They will be restored in the following call.
- */
- walk = (struct vmemmap_remap_walk) {
- .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
- .vmemmap_pages = vmemmap_pages,
- .flags = 0,
- };
-
- vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+ vmemmap_restore_range(start, end, vmemmap_pages, 0);

return ret;
}
@@ -376,17 +376,12 @@ static int vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct folio *folio, unsigned long flags)
int nid = folio_nid(folio);
unsigned long start = (unsigned long)folio_page(folio, 0);
unsigned long end = start + folio_vmemmap_size(folio);
- struct vmemmap_remap_walk walk = {
- .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
- .vmemmap_pages = &vmemmap_pages,
- .flags = flags,
- };

start += VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_SIZE;
if (alloc_vmemmap_page_list(&vmemmap_pages, (end - start) / PAGE_SIZE, nid))
return -ENOMEM;

- return vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+ return vmemmap_restore_range(start, end, &vmemmap_pages, flags);
}

static bool vmemmap_optimize_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON);
--
2.54.0