[PATCH v4 2/3] khugepaged: Optimize __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded() by PTE batching

From: Dev Jain
Date: Thu Jul 24 2025 - 01:23:41 EST


Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An
improvement is expected due to batching refcount-mapcount manipulation on
the folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of
TLB flushes is also reduced.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index a55fb1dcd224..f23e943506bc 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -700,12 +700,15 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded(pte_t *pte,
spinlock_t *ptl,
struct list_head *compound_pagelist)
{
+ unsigned long end = address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
struct folio *src, *tmp;
- pte_t *_pte;
pte_t pteval;
+ pte_t *_pte;
+ unsigned int nr_ptes;

- for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
- _pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR; _pte += nr_ptes,
+ address += nr_ptes * PAGE_SIZE) {
+ nr_ptes = 1;
pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, 1);
@@ -722,18 +725,26 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded(pte_t *pte,
struct page *src_page = pte_page(pteval);

src = page_folio(src_page);
- if (!folio_test_large(src))
+
+ if (folio_test_large(src)) {
+ unsigned int max_nr_ptes = (end - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ nr_ptes = folio_pte_batch(src, _pte, pteval, max_nr_ptes);
+ } else {
release_pte_folio(src);
+ }
+
/*
* ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to
* be disabled to update the per-cpu stats
* inside folio_remove_rmap_pte().
*/
spin_lock(ptl);
- ptep_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte);
- folio_remove_rmap_pte(src, src_page, vma);
+ clear_ptes(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte, nr_ptes);
+ folio_remove_rmap_ptes(src, src_page, nr_ptes, vma);
spin_unlock(ptl);
- free_folio_and_swap_cache(src);
+ free_swap_cache(src);
+ folio_put_refs(src, nr_ptes);
}
}

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2.30.2