[PATCH 05/11] mm/hugetlb: drop boot-time HVO handling for gigantic folios

From: Muchun Song

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 05:00:19 EST


HugeTLB HVO is currently supported on x86-64, riscv64, and LoongArch.
On x86-64 and riscv64, gigantic HugeTLB pages are larger than the
section size, so the existing section-based vmemmap optimization
infrastructure is already sufficient to cover the whole folio. On
LoongArch, HugeTLB HVO is supported without gigantic HugeTLB pages.

Therefore, boot-time HugeTLB HVO folios can rely on the section-based
vmemmap optimization infrastructure directly, without the extra bulk
optimization and fallback handling.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 25 +++++++------------------
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 17 +----------------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index da1c17f14a62..ff6f837b6df0 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3305,21 +3305,7 @@ static void __init prep_and_add_bootmem_folios(struct hstate *h,
unsigned long flags;
struct folio *folio, *tmp_f;

- /* Send list for bulk vmemmap optimization processing */
- hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(h, folio_list);
-
list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, tmp_f, folio_list, lru) {
- if (!folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio)) {
- /*
- * If HVO fails, initialize all tail struct pages
- * We do not worry about potential long lock hold
- * time as this is early in boot and there should
- * be no contention.
- */
- hugetlb_folio_init_tail_vmemmap(folio, h,
- VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_NR_STRUCT_PAGES,
- pages_per_huge_page(h));
- }
hugetlb_bootmem_init_migratetype(folio, h);
/* Subdivide locks to achieve better parallel performance */
spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
@@ -3343,6 +3329,8 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc_node(unsigned long nid)
struct page *page = virt_to_page(m);
struct folio *folio = (void *)page;
const unsigned long pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
+ const unsigned long nr_pages = pages_per_huge_page(m->hstate);
+ unsigned long nr_struct_pages = nr_pages;

h = m->hstate;
/*
@@ -3356,13 +3344,14 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc_node(unsigned long nid)
VM_BUG_ON(!hstate_is_gigantic(h));
WARN_ON(folio_ref_count(folio) != 1);

- hugetlb_folio_init_vmemmap(folio, h,
- VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_NR_STRUCT_PAGES);
+ if (vmemmap_optimizable_order(pfn_to_section_compound_order(pfn)))
+ nr_struct_pages = VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_NR_STRUCT_PAGES;
+ hugetlb_folio_init_vmemmap(folio, h, nr_struct_pages);
init_new_hugetlb_folio(folio);

if (vmemmap_optimizable_order(pfn_to_section_compound_order(pfn)))
folio_set_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio);
- section_set_compound_order_range(pfn, folio_nr_pages(folio), 0);
+ section_set_compound_order_range(pfn, nr_pages, 0);

list_add(&folio->lru, &folio_list);

@@ -3377,7 +3366,7 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc_node(unsigned long nid)
if (hugetlb_early_cma(h))
folio_set_hugetlb_cma(folio);
else
- adjust_managed_page_count(page, pages_per_huge_page(h));
+ adjust_managed_page_count(page, nr_pages);
cond_resched();
}

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index ba8e11e399b2..d73ceeef392e 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -552,7 +552,6 @@ static int hugetlb_vmemmap_pteify_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *fo
void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h, struct list_head *folio_list)
{
struct folio *folio;
- unsigned long nr_to_optimize = 0;
LIST_HEAD(vmemmap_pages);
unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_DEFER_TLB_FLUSH;

@@ -560,18 +559,7 @@ void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h, struct list_head *folio_l
return;

list_for_each_entry(folio, folio_list, lru) {
- int ret;
-
- /*
- * Bootmem gigantic folios may already be marked optimized when
- * their vmemmap layout was prepared earlier, so skip them here.
- */
- if (folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio))
- continue;
-
- nr_to_optimize++;
-
- ret = hugetlb_vmemmap_pteify_folio(h, folio, flags);
+ int ret = hugetlb_vmemmap_pteify_folio(h, folio, flags);

/*
* Splitting the PMD requires allocating a page, thus let's fail
@@ -583,9 +571,6 @@ void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h, struct list_head *folio_l
break;
}

- if (!nr_to_optimize)
- return;
-
flush_tlb_all();

list_for_each_entry(folio, folio_list, lru) {
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