[PATCH v4 08/13] mm/collapse: call collapse_file() from collapse_single_pmd()
From: Kiryl Shutsemau
Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 06:10:40 EST
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
collapse_scan_file() reads the page cache to decide whether a table is
worth collapsing and, when it is, calls collapse_file() itself. The
caller cannot get between the decision and the collapse.
Move the collapse_file() call up into collapse_single_pmd(), so the scan
stops at the decision.
Two things change with it. The writeback retry re-runs collapse_file()
alone instead of rescanning first; collapse_file() repeats the scan's
checks under the page cache lock anyway. And mm_khugepaged_scan_file
fires before the collapse, so for an accepted table its status reads
SCAN_SUCCEED; what the collapse made of the table is for
mm_khugepaged_collapse_file to report.
Preparation for splitting a collapse into a scan under mmap_lock and a
run without it. The file scan has to stop where the anonymous one will.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 60ec7e80d554..89a4c3f5a91c 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2737,13 +2737,9 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
else
cc->progress += HPAGE_PMD_NR;
- if (result == SCAN_SUCCEED) {
- if (present < HPAGE_PMD_NR - max_ptes_none) {
- result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
- count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
- } else {
- result = collapse_file(mm, addr, file, start, cc);
- }
+ if (result == SCAN_SUCCEED && present < HPAGE_PMD_NR - max_ptes_none) {
+ result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
+ count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
}
trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(mm, failed_pfn, file, present, swap, result);
@@ -2774,8 +2770,16 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_single_pmd(unsigned long addr,
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
*lock_dropped = true;
-retry:
+
+ /*
+ * SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE is work too: the page cache already holds
+ * the PMD folio, and only the PTE table is left to retract.
+ */
result = collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, cc);
+ if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
+ goto put;
+retry:
+ result = collapse_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff, cc);
/* Dirty pages are worth a writeback and one more try, if asked for */
if (cc->policy.file_writeback_dirty && result == SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK &&
@@ -2787,6 +2791,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_single_pmd(unsigned long addr,
triggered_wb = true;
goto retry;
}
+put:
fput(file);
if (result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
--
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