[PATCH 04/12] mm/collapse: add collapse.h for the collapse interface

From: Kiryl Shutsemau

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 12:20:49 EST


From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>

khugepaged.c holds both the users of collapse and the machinery that
performs it. The daemon's scan loop, the sysfs tunables, MADV_COLLAPSE's
entry point and the collapse itself all sit in one file and reach into
each other freely. Nothing marks where a user ends and the engine
begins.

Start drawing that line.

Add mm/collapse.h for what the two sides have to agree on:

- enum scan_result - what the engine hands back;
- struct collapse_control - the state a request carries.

And two constants move with them:

- KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT -> COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
- KHUGEPAGED_MIN_MTHP_ORDER -> COLLAPSE_MIN_MTHP_ORDER.

Neither is a fact about the daemon, so both lose the KHUGEPAGED_ prefix.

No functional change.

Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
mm/collapse.h | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/khugepaged.c | 79 ++++++++-----------------------------------------
3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 mm/collapse.h

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a9245d827ddb..4d1ff4c76496 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17433,6 +17433,7 @@ F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
F: include/linux/huge_mm.h
F: include/linux/khugepaged.h
F: include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+F: mm/collapse.h
F: mm/huge_memory.c
F: mm/khugepaged.c
F: mm/mm_slot.h
diff --git a/mm/collapse.h b/mm/collapse.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1c40229b9554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/collapse.h
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __MM_COLLAPSE_H
+#define __MM_COLLAPSE_H
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/nodemask.h>
+#include <linux/pgtable.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/* The most the max_ptes_* tunables accept */
+#define COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1)
+
+/* The smallest order a collapse will build */
+#define COLLAPSE_MIN_MTHP_ORDER 2
+
+enum scan_result {
+ SCAN_FAIL,
+ SCAN_SUCCEED,
+ SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE,
+ SCAN_PMD_MAPPED,
+ SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
+ SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
+ SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
+ SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT,
+ SCAN_PTE_UFFD,
+ SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE,
+ SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE,
+ SCAN_PAGE_NULL,
+ SCAN_SCAN_ABORT,
+ SCAN_PAGE_COUNT,
+ SCAN_PAGE_LRU,
+ SCAN_PAGE_LOCK,
+ SCAN_PAGE_ANON,
+ SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE,
+ SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND,
+ SCAN_ANY_PROCESS,
+ SCAN_VMA_NULL,
+ SCAN_VMA_CHECK,
+ SCAN_ADDRESS_RANGE,
+ SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU,
+ SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL,
+ SCAN_CGROUP_CHARGE_FAIL,
+ SCAN_TRUNCATED,
+ SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE,
+ SCAN_STORE_FAILED,
+ SCAN_COPY_MC,
+ SCAN_PAGE_FILLED,
+ SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK,
+};
+
+struct collapse_control {
+ bool is_khugepaged;
+
+ /* Num pages scanned per node */
+ u32 node_load[MAX_NUMNODES];
+
+ /* Num pages scanned (see khugepaged_pages_to_scan) */
+ unsigned int progress;
+
+ /* nodemask for allocation fallback */
+ nodemask_t alloc_nmask;
+
+ /* Each bit marks a PTE the scan accepted as a collapse source */
+ DECLARE_BITMAP(eligible_ptes, MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE);
+};
+
+#endif /* __MM_COLLAPSE_H */
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 6a437d6fe016..972843c45250 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -26,44 +26,10 @@
#include <linux/cleanup.h>

#include <asm/tlb.h>
+#include "collapse.h"
#include "internal.h"
-#include "page_alloc.h"
#include "mm_slot.h"
-
-enum scan_result {
- SCAN_FAIL,
- SCAN_SUCCEED,
- SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE,
- SCAN_PMD_MAPPED,
- SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
- SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
- SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
- SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT,
- SCAN_PTE_UFFD,
- SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE,
- SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE,
- SCAN_PAGE_NULL,
- SCAN_SCAN_ABORT,
- SCAN_PAGE_COUNT,
- SCAN_PAGE_LRU,
- SCAN_PAGE_LOCK,
- SCAN_PAGE_ANON,
- SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE,
- SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND,
- SCAN_ANY_PROCESS,
- SCAN_VMA_NULL,
- SCAN_VMA_CHECK,
- SCAN_ADDRESS_RANGE,
- SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU,
- SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL,
- SCAN_CGROUP_CHARGE_FAIL,
- SCAN_TRUNCATED,
- SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE,
- SCAN_STORE_FAILED,
- SCAN_COPY_MC,
- SCAN_PAGE_FILLED,
- SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK,
-};
+#include "page_alloc.h"

#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/huge_memory.h>
@@ -91,7 +57,6 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(khugepaged_wait);
*
* Note that these are only respected if collapse was initiated by khugepaged.
*/
-#define KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1)
unsigned int khugepaged_max_ptes_none __read_mostly;
static unsigned int khugepaged_max_ptes_swap __read_mostly;
static unsigned int khugepaged_max_ptes_shared __read_mostly;
@@ -101,24 +66,6 @@ static DEFINE_READ_MOSTLY_HASHTABLE(mm_slots_hash, MM_SLOTS_HASH_BITS);

static struct kmem_cache *mm_slot_cache __ro_after_init;

-#define KHUGEPAGED_MIN_MTHP_ORDER 2
-
-struct collapse_control {
- bool is_khugepaged;
-
- /* Num pages scanned per node */
- u32 node_load[MAX_NUMNODES];
-
- /* Num pages scanned (see khugepaged_pages_to_scan) */
- unsigned int progress;
-
- /* nodemask for allocation fallback */
- nodemask_t alloc_nmask;
-
- /* Each bit marks a PTE the scan accepted as a collapse source */
- DECLARE_BITMAP(eligible_ptes, MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE);
-};
-
/**
* struct khugepaged_scan - cursor for scanning
* @mm_head: the head of the mm list to scan
@@ -267,7 +214,7 @@ static ssize_t max_ptes_none_store(struct kobject *kobj,
unsigned long max_ptes_none;

err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &max_ptes_none);
- if (err || max_ptes_none > KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
+ if (err || max_ptes_none > COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
return -EINVAL;

khugepaged_max_ptes_none = max_ptes_none;
@@ -292,7 +239,7 @@ static ssize_t max_ptes_swap_store(struct kobject *kobj,
unsigned long max_ptes_swap;

err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &max_ptes_swap);
- if (err || max_ptes_swap > KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
+ if (err || max_ptes_swap > COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
return -EINVAL;

khugepaged_max_ptes_swap = max_ptes_swap;
@@ -318,7 +265,7 @@ static ssize_t max_ptes_shared_store(struct kobject *kobj,
unsigned long max_ptes_shared;

err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &max_ptes_shared);
- if (err || max_ptes_shared > KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
+ if (err || max_ptes_shared > COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
return -EINVAL;

khugepaged_max_ptes_shared = max_ptes_shared;
@@ -378,19 +325,19 @@ static unsigned int collapse_max_ptes_none(struct collapse_control *cc,
if (is_pmd_order(order))
return max_ptes_none;
/*
- * for mTHP collapse with the sysctl value set to KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT,
+ * for mTHP collapse with the sysctl value set to COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT,
* scale the maximum number of PTEs to the order of the collapse.
*/
- if (max_ptes_none == KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
+ if (max_ptes_none == COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT)
return (1 << order) - 1;
/*
- * For mTHP collapse of values other than 0 or KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT,
+ * For mTHP collapse of values other than 0 or COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT,
* emit a warning and return 0.
*/
if (max_ptes_none)
pr_warn_once("mTHP collapse does not support max_ptes_none"
" values other than 0 or %u, defaulting to 0.\n",
- KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT);
+ COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT);
return 0;
}

@@ -476,7 +423,7 @@ int __init khugepaged_init(void)
return -ENOMEM;

khugepaged_pages_to_scan = HPAGE_PMD_NR * 8;
- khugepaged_max_ptes_none = KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
+ khugepaged_max_ptes_none = COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
khugepaged_max_ptes_swap = HPAGE_PMD_NR / 8;
khugepaged_max_ptes_shared = HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2;

@@ -1571,8 +1518,8 @@ static enum scan_result mthp_collapse(struct mm_struct *mm,
* any smaller order enabled. When at the smallest order
* we must always move to the next offset.
*/
- if (order > KHUGEPAGED_MIN_MTHP_ORDER &&
- (enabled_orders & GENMASK(order - 1, 0))) {
+ if (order > COLLAPSE_MIN_MTHP_ORDER &&
+ (enabled_orders & GENMASK(order - 1, 0))) {
order--;
continue;
}
@@ -1636,7 +1583,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
* is then checked again in mthp_collapse() for each attempted order.
*/
if (enabled_orders != BIT(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER))
- max_ptes_none = KHUGEPAGED_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;
+ max_ptes_none = COLLAPSE_MAX_PTES_LIMIT;

pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, start_addr, &ptl);
if (!pte) {
--
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