[PATCH 11/12] mm/collapse: declare the collapse interface in collapse.h
From: Kiryl Shutsemau
Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 11:35:29 EST
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
A collapse takes four calls:
- collapse_control_init() - set up the control a caller carries;
- collapse_scan_pmd() - scan one PTE table, under mmap_lock;
- collapse_run_pmd() - collapse what the scan found, no mmap_lock;
- collapse_control_release() - done with the control.
All four are static in khugepaged.c, as are collapse_possible_orders(),
which says what a VMA allows, and the revalidate a caller needs once a
collapse has given the mmap_lock up. No other file can ask for a collapse
without them.
Declare them in collapse.h, with a comment stating the order they are
called in and who holds the lock over each step.
hugepage_vma_revalidate() becomes collapse_vma_revalidate(): it is part of
what a collapse offers now, not a helper of the daemon.
Preparation for implementing MADV_COLLAPSE in madvise.c.
No functional change.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/collapse.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/khugepaged.c | 18 +++++++++---------
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/collapse.h b/mm/collapse.h
index f03cad8ed40e..c5773e273e15 100644
--- a/mm/collapse.h
+++ b/mm/collapse.h
@@ -116,4 +116,48 @@ struct collapse_control {
pgoff_t scan_pgoff;
};
+/* Which orders a VMA may collapse to, zero when it may not collapse at all */
+unsigned long collapse_possible_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ vm_flags_t vm_flags, enum tva_type tva_flags);
+
+/*
+ * A caller states what it allows in cc->policy and then hands over one PTE
+ * table's worth of a VMA at a time:
+ *
+ * collapse_control_init(cc) once, before the first table
+ * collapse_scan_pmd(vma, addr, ...) per table
+ * collapse_run_pmd(mm, addr, cc) when a scan found work
+ * collapse_control_release(cc) once, when done with the control
+ *
+ * The caller holds mmap_lock for reading over the scan and passes an address
+ * within @vma, aligned to the PTE table the scan is to judge.
+ *
+ * The scan returns with that lock still held. It only reads, and almost every
+ * table it is offered has nothing to collapse, so a caller walks a whole VMA
+ * under the one lock it took to get there. SCAN_SUCCEED means there is
+ * something to collapse; anything else is why there is not.
+ *
+ * The run is called without the lock and returns without it, taking what it
+ * needs in between: what it does -- allocate, isolate, copy, flush -- is slow
+ * enough that a writer would wait behind it. The caller gives the lock up
+ * first, and with it @vma and anything derived under it, so a caller carrying
+ * on has to look up again with collapse_vma_revalidate(). The run revalidates
+ * for itself rather than trusting what the scan saw.
+ *
+ * A scan that found something has to be run: the file side takes a reference on
+ * the file while it still has the VMA to take it from, and the run is what
+ * gives it back.
+ */
+void collapse_control_init(struct collapse_control *cc);
+void collapse_control_release(struct collapse_control *cc);
+enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, struct collapse_control *cc,
+ unsigned long orders);
+enum scan_result collapse_run_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+ struct collapse_control *cc);
+enum scan_result collapse_vma_revalidate(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long address, bool expect_anon,
+ struct vm_area_struct **vmap, struct collapse_control *cc,
+ unsigned int order);
+
#endif /* __MM_COLLAPSE_H */
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index f862abb1dbbd..13c4dbf04379 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ void __khugepaged_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
* Check what orders are possible based on the vma and collapse type.
* This is used to determine if mTHP collapse is a viable option.
*/
-static unsigned long collapse_possible_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+unsigned long collapse_possible_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
vm_flags_t vm_flags, enum tva_type tva_flags)
{
unsigned long orders;
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ static int collapse_find_target_node(struct collapse_control *cc)
* Returns enum scan_result value.
*/
-static enum scan_result hugepage_vma_revalidate(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
+enum scan_result collapse_vma_revalidate(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
bool expect_anon, struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
struct collapse_control *cc, unsigned int order)
{
@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long s
}
mmap_read_lock(mm);
- result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, pmd_addr, /*expect_anon=*/ true,
+ result = collapse_vma_revalidate(mm, pmd_addr, /*expect_anon=*/ true,
&vma, cc, order);
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long s
* mmap_lock.
*/
mmap_write_lock(mm);
- result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, pmd_addr, /*expect_anon=*/ true,
+ result = collapse_vma_revalidate(mm, pmd_addr, /*expect_anon=*/ true,
&vma, cc, order);
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
goto out_up_write;
@@ -2754,13 +2754,13 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
return result;
}
-static void collapse_control_init(struct collapse_control *cc)
+void collapse_control_init(struct collapse_control *cc)
{
cc->progress = 0;
cc->scan_file = NULL;
}
-static void collapse_control_release(struct collapse_control *cc)
+void collapse_control_release(struct collapse_control *cc)
{
/* A scan that took a file reference should have been run */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cc->scan_file)) {
@@ -2769,7 +2769,7 @@ static void collapse_control_release(struct collapse_control *cc)
}
}
-static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, struct collapse_control *cc,
unsigned long orders)
{
@@ -2793,7 +2793,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return SCAN_SUCCEED;
}
-static enum scan_result collapse_run_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
+enum scan_result collapse_run_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, struct collapse_control *cc)
{
struct file *file = cc->scan_file;
@@ -3237,7 +3237,7 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
if (!vma) {
cond_resched();
mmap_read_lock(mm);
- result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, addr, false, &found,
+ result = collapse_vma_revalidate(mm, addr, false, &found,
cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
last_fail = result;
--
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