Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mm: khugepaged: set to next mm direct when mm has MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY

From: Wei Yang
Date: Sun Jan 04 2026 - 19:38:27 EST


On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 08:20:29PM +0800, Lance Yang wrote:
>
>
>On 2026/1/4 13:41, Vernon Yang wrote:
>> When an mm with the MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY flag is detected during
>> scanning, directly set khugepaged_scan.mm_slot to the next mm_slot,
>> reduce redundant operation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> index 1ca034a5f653..d4ed0f397335 100644
>> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
>> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> @@ -2541,7 +2541,7 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
>> * Release the current mm_slot if this mm is about to die, or
>> * if we scanned all vmas of this mm.
>> */
>> - if (hpage_collapse_test_exit(mm) || !vma) {
>> + if (hpage_collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm) || !vma) {
>> /*
>> * Make sure that if mm_users is reaching zero while
>> * khugepaged runs here, khugepaged_exit will find
>
>
>Let's convert hpage_collapse_test_exit() in collect_mm_slot() as well,
>otherwise the mm_slot would not be freed and will be scanned again ...
>
>static void collect_mm_slot(struct mm_slot *slot)
>{
> struct mm_struct *mm = slot->mm;
>
> lockdep_assert_held(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
>
> if (hpage_collapse_test_exit(mm)) { <-
>

What if user toggle the MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY flag again?

> hash_del(&slot->hash);
> list_del(&slot->mm_node);
>
> mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, slot);
> mmdrop(mm);
> }
>}

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