[PATCH v4 12/13] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: unify vmemmap range restoration
From: Muchun Song
Date: Fri Nov 06 2026 - 21:31:12 EST
Restoring an optimized folio and rolling back a partial optimization
both restore a vmemmap range, but the operation is currently implemented
separately in each path.
Use a single range-restoration path for both cases, making rollback an
explicit bounded form of normal restoration.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
- Collect Reviewed-by from Oscar Salvador
- Collect Tested-by from Andrew Morton
v3:
- Collect Reviewed-by from Mike Rapoport
v2:
- Collect Reviewed-by from Lance Yang and Qi Zheng
---
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 359e53302a67..b8c10671d53b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ static int vmemmap_restore_pte(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
return 0;
}
+static inline int vmemmap_restore_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ struct list_head *vmemmap_pages, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ struct vmemmap_remap_walk walk = {
+ .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
+ .vmemmap_pages = vmemmap_pages,
+ .flags = flags,
+ };
+
+ return vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+}
+
/**
* vmemmap_remap_split - split the vmemmap virtual address range [@start, @end)
* backing PMDs of the directmap into PTEs
@@ -348,19 +360,7 @@ static int vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct folio *folio,
return ret;
end = start + walk.nr_walked * PAGE_SIZE;
-
- /*
- * vmemmap_pages contains pages from the previous vmemmap_remap_range()
- * call which failed. These are pages which were removed from
- * the vmemmap. They will be restored in the following call.
- */
- walk = (struct vmemmap_remap_walk) {
- .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
- .vmemmap_pages = vmemmap_pages,
- .flags = 0,
- };
-
- vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+ vmemmap_restore_range(start, end, vmemmap_pages, 0);
return ret;
}
@@ -382,11 +382,6 @@ static int vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct folio *folio, unsigned long flags)
unsigned long end = start + folio_vmemmap_size(folio);
int ret, nid = folio_nid(folio);
LIST_HEAD(vmemmap_pages);
- struct vmemmap_remap_walk walk = {
- .remap_pte = vmemmap_restore_pte,
- .vmemmap_pages = &vmemmap_pages,
- .flags = flags,
- };
start += VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_SIZE;
ret = alloc_vmemmap_page_list(&vmemmap_pages, (end - start) / PAGE_SIZE,
@@ -394,7 +389,7 @@ static int vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct folio *folio, unsigned long flags)
if (ret)
return ret;
- return vmemmap_remap_range(start, end, &walk);
+ return vmemmap_restore_range(start, end, &vmemmap_pages, flags);
}
static bool vmemmap_optimize_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON);
--
2.54.0