Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract young page check into collapse_is_referenced() helper

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 06:04:28 EST


On 7/15/26 04:59, Nico Pache wrote:
> This change deduplicates the "is this PTE/folio referenced enough to be
> considered for a collapse" condition that was repeated in both
> __collapse_huge_page_isolate() and collapse_scan_pmd(), extracting it into
> a single inline helper function.
>
> Also move the comment and use it as the function header. While we are at
> it, updated the comment to clarify that a young pte is a recently accessed
> one.
>
> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Also, do we really need this (badly named :) ) helper given that there will only
be a single invocation after #5?

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Cheers,

David