[PATCH v4 06/17] mm/huge_memory: consolidate irq and locking for folio split

From: Kairui Song via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 14:12:46 EST


From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Let each split helper handle its own locking instead of relying on
the caller, so both helpers manage their own irq and locking state.
This lets __folio_split() drop its local irq handling and fail label,
preparing for further cleanup.

The file path now uses xas_lock_irq() instead of local_irq_disable()
with xas_lock(). The two are equivalent on non-RT, and
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE cannot be enabled on RT anyway. This conversion
also buys consistency: every other place in mm/ that freezes a folio
while it is still reachable through the page cache already takes the
lock this way. This was actually the last plain xas_lock() on
mapping->i_pages left in mm. If we are going to support RT, spinning
on frozen folio refs could be a problem, but it already exists in
many places and should be fixed generically.

The anon helper keeps a single local_irq_disable() as before, because
it has to cover several plain spinlocks at once.

The dropped xas_reset() was a no-op as the xa_state is not walked
before the xas_load() under the lock.

Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 80291fac78e2..4ddef481cfdc 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3998,8 +3998,12 @@ static int __folio_freeze_split_anon(struct folio *folio,
struct lruvec *lruvec;
int ret = 0;

- if (!folio_ref_freeze(folio, folio_cache_ref_count(folio) + 1))
+ local_irq_disable();
+
+ if (!folio_ref_freeze(folio, folio_cache_ref_count(folio) + 1)) {
+ local_irq_enable();
return -EAGAIN;
+ }

/* Take off the deferred split queue while frozen and memcg set */
folio_unqueue_deferred_split(folio);
@@ -4051,6 +4055,7 @@ static int __folio_freeze_split_anon(struct folio *folio,
lruvec_unlock(lruvec);
if (ci)
swap_cluster_unlock(ci);
+ local_irq_enable();

return ret;
}
@@ -4069,8 +4074,21 @@ static int __folio_freeze_split_file(struct folio *folio,
/* Currently device private folios can only back anonymous memory. */
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_is_device_private(folio), folio);

- if (!folio_ref_freeze(folio, folio_cache_ref_count(folio) + 1))
- return -EAGAIN;
+ xas_lock_irq(xas);
+
+ /*
+ * Check if the folio is present in page cache.
+ * We assume all tail are present too, if folio is there.
+ */
+ if (xas_load(xas) != folio) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
+ if (!folio_ref_freeze(folio, folio_cache_ref_count(folio) + 1)) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto fail;
+ }

if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) &&
new_order < HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
@@ -4142,6 +4160,8 @@ static int __folio_freeze_split_file(struct folio *folio,
if (do_lru)
lruvec_unlock(lruvec);

+fail:
+ xas_unlock_irq(xas);
return ret;
}

@@ -4281,32 +4301,13 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,

unmap_folio(folio);

- /* block interrupt reentry in xa_lock and spinlock */
- local_irq_disable();
- if (is_anon) {
+ if (is_anon)
ret = __folio_freeze_split_anon(folio, new_order, split_at,
true, list, split_type);
- } else {
- /*
- * Check if the folio is present in page cache.
- * We assume all tail are present too, if folio is there.
- */
- xas_lock(&xas);
- xas_reset(&xas);
- if (xas_load(&xas) != folio) {
- ret = -EAGAIN;
- goto fail;
- }
+ else
ret = __folio_freeze_split_file(folio, new_order, split_at, &xas, mapping,
true, list, split_type, end,
&nr_shmem_dropped);
- }
-
-fail:
- if (mapping)
- xas_unlock(&xas);
-
- local_irq_enable();

if (nr_shmem_dropped)
shmem_uncharge(mapping->host, nr_shmem_dropped);
@@ -4390,8 +4391,6 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
*/
int folio_split_unmapped(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_mapped(folio), folio);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio);
@@ -4400,11 +4399,8 @@ int folio_split_unmapped(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order)
if (folio_expected_ref_count(folio) != folio_ref_count(folio) - 1)
return -EAGAIN;

- local_irq_disable();
- ret = __folio_freeze_split_anon(folio, new_order, &folio->page,
- false, NULL, SPLIT_TYPE_UNIFORM);
- local_irq_enable();
- return ret;
+ return __folio_freeze_split_anon(folio, new_order, &folio->page,
+ false, NULL, SPLIT_TYPE_UNIFORM);
}

/*

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