Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract reference check into folio_pte_referenced() helper
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 11:55:43 EST
On 8/11/26 14:48, Nico Pache (Red Hat) 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 (Red Hat) <nico.pache@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 1e26ea97381a..8babd4c97db6 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -672,6 +672,22 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte,
> }
> }
>
> +/*
> + * folio_pte_referenced() - Check if a folio or its PTE mapping was recently used
> + *
> + * Return: true if recent access was observed through either the folio state
> + * or the current PTE mapping.
> + */
No need for doc for such a trivial internal helper :)
> +static inline bool folio_pte_referenced(struct folio *folio,
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t pteval)
> +{
> + /* The folio was referenced previously ... */
> + if (folio_test_young(folio) || folio_test_referenced(folio))
> + return true;
> + /* ... or the PTE mapping was recently used */
> + return pte_young(pteval) || mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, addr);
> +}
> +
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Cheers,
David