[PATCH v3 09/12] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts

[Nico Pache]

There are cases where, if an attempted collapse fails, all subsequent
orders are guaranteed to also fail. Avoid these collapse attempts by
bailing out early.

Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 114056276003..86e4c5100181 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1366,6 +1366,23 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_bitmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 				collapsed += (1 << order);
 				continue;
 			}
+			/*
+			 * Some ret values indicate all lower order will also
+			 * fail, dont trying to collapse smaller orders
+			 */
+			if (ret == SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE ||
+				ret == SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE ||
+				ret == SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE ||
+				ret == SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT ||
+				ret == SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP ||
+				ret == SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL ||
+				ret == SCAN_CGROUP_CHARGE_FAIL ||
+				ret == SCAN_COPY_MC ||
+				ret == SCAN_PAGE_LOCK ||
+				ret == SCAN_PAGE_COUNT)
+				goto next;
+			else
+				break;
 		}
 
 next:
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