[PATCH v2] mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
From: Jakov Novak
Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 16:47:49 EST
Currently, khugepaged locks the khugepaged_mutex in two functions:
start_stop_khugepaged and khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update. Remove
mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage in these functions and replace it with the
guard macro. This makes the code more readable (removing a goto statement)
and makes it harder to introduce bugs in the future.
No functional changes introduced.
Signed-off-by: Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Added #include <linux/cleanup.h> to the includes at the top of the file
- Moved err declaration to the scope where it's used in
start_stop_khugepaged
- Made default case return 0 instead of err in start_stop_khugepaged
mm/khugepaged.c | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..7890bd3e2a9d 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/pgalloc.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -3111,18 +3112,17 @@ void set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void)
int start_stop_khugepaged(void)
{
- int err = 0;
-
- mutex_lock(&khugepaged_mutex);
+ guard(mutex)(&khugepaged_mutex);
if (hugepage_enabled()) {
if (!khugepaged_thread)
khugepaged_thread = kthread_run(khugepaged, NULL,
"khugepaged");
if (IS_ERR(khugepaged_thread)) {
+ int err;
pr_err("khugepaged: kthread_run(khugepaged) failed\n");
err = PTR_ERR(khugepaged_thread);
khugepaged_thread = NULL;
- goto fail;
+ return err;
}
if (!list_empty(&khugepaged_scan.mm_head))
@@ -3132,17 +3132,14 @@ int start_stop_khugepaged(void)
khugepaged_thread = NULL;
}
set_recommended_min_free_kbytes();
-fail:
- mutex_unlock(&khugepaged_mutex);
- return err;
+ return 0;
}
void khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update(void)
{
- mutex_lock(&khugepaged_mutex);
+ guard(mutex)(&khugepaged_mutex);
if (hugepage_enabled() && khugepaged_thread)
set_recommended_min_free_kbytes();
- mutex_unlock(&khugepaged_mutex);
}
bool current_is_khugepaged(void)
--
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