[PATCH v5 15/36] mm/ksm: skip KSM for managed-memory folios

From: Gregory Price

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 15:41:40 EST


Since private memory is intended for explicit placement, allowing
KSM to operate on it by default would completely defeat the purpose.

Skip KSM merge and scan operations for private node folios using
the same filter location as zone_device folios.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/ksm.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 47006f494fcb1..dcc5c46a29eac 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static struct page *get_mergeable_page(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)

folio = folio_walk_start(&fw, vma, addr, 0);
if (folio) {
- if (!folio_is_zone_device(folio) &&
+ if (!folio_is_private_managed(folio) &&
folio_test_anon(folio)) {
folio_get(folio);
page = fw.page;
@@ -2558,7 +2558,8 @@ static int ksm_next_page_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned lon
goto not_found_unlock;
folio = page_folio(page);

- if (folio_is_zone_device(folio) || !folio_test_anon(folio))
+ if (unlikely(folio_is_private_managed(folio)) ||
+ !folio_test_anon(folio))
goto not_found_unlock;

page += ((addr & (PMD_SIZE - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -2582,7 +2583,8 @@ static int ksm_next_page_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned lon
continue;
folio = page_folio(page);

- if (folio_is_zone_device(folio) || !folio_test_anon(folio))
+ if (unlikely(folio_is_private_managed(folio)) ||
+ !folio_test_anon(folio))
continue;
goto found_unlock;
}
--
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