[PATCH 6/8] mm/khugepaged: hoist isolation into collapse_isolate_folio()

From: Pedro Falcato

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 10:37:32 EST


Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index db1f765b6ead..429e2c5833d0 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2332,6 +2332,69 @@ static enum scan_result prepare_collapse_file_folio(pgoff_t index, struct collap
return ret;
}

+static enum scan_result collapse_isolate_folio(struct collapse_file_state *state)
+{
+ struct folio *folio = state->folio;
+ enum scan_result result;
+
+ /*
+ * The folio must be locked, so we can drop the i_pages lock
+ * without racing with truncate.
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
+
+ /* make sure the folio is up to date */
+ if (unlikely(!folio_test_uptodate(folio))) {
+ result = SCAN_FAIL;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If file was truncated then extended, or hole-punched, before
+ * we locked the first folio, then a THP might be there already.
+ * This will be discovered on the first iteration.
+ */
+ if (is_pmd_order(folio_order(folio))) {
+ result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (folio_mapping(folio) != state->mapping) {
+ result = SCAN_TRUNCATED;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (!state->is_shmem && (folio_test_dirty(folio) ||
+ folio_test_writeback(folio))) {
+ /*
+ * khugepaged only works on clean file-backed folios,
+ * so this folio is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
+ * since first write.
+ */
+ result = SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio)) {
+ result = SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (!filemap_release_folio(folio, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ result = SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE;
+ folio_putback_lru(folio);
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (folio_mapped(folio))
+ try_to_unmap(folio, TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK | TTU_BATCH_FLUSH);
+ return SCAN_SUCCEED;
+out_unlock:
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ return result;
+}
+
/**
* collapse_file - collapse filemap/tmpfs/shmem pages into huge one.
*
@@ -2442,61 +2505,12 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
folio = state.folio;
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
goto xa_unlocked;
- /*
- * The folio must be locked, so we can drop the i_pages lock
- * without racing with truncate.
- */
- VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
-
- /* make sure the folio is up to date */
- if (unlikely(!folio_test_uptodate(folio))) {
- result = SCAN_FAIL;
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- /*
- * If file was truncated then extended, or hole-punched, before
- * we locked the first folio, then a THP might be there already.
- * This will be discovered on the first iteration.
- */
- if (is_pmd_order(folio_order(folio))) {
- result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- if (folio_mapping(folio) != mapping) {
- result = SCAN_TRUNCATED;
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- if (!is_shmem && (folio_test_dirty(folio) ||
- folio_test_writeback(folio))) {
- /*
- * khugepaged only works on clean file-backed folios,
- * so this folio is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
- * since first write.
- */
- result = SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK;
- goto out_unlock;
- }

- if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio)) {
- result = SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU;
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- if (!filemap_release_folio(folio, GFP_KERNEL)) {
- result = SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE;
- folio_putback_lru(folio);
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- if (folio_mapped(folio))
- try_to_unmap(folio,
- TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK | TTU_BATCH_FLUSH);
+ result = collapse_isolate_folio(&state);
+ if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
+ goto xa_unlocked;

xas_lock_irq(&xas);
-
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio != xa_load(xas.xa, index), folio);

/*
--
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