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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst3
-rw-r--r--mm/khugepaged.c22
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index f82300b9193f..076443cc10a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into
THPs, and lower memory access performance.
``max_ptes_shared`` specifies how many pages can be shared across multiple
-processes. Exceeding the number would block the collapse::
+processes. khugepaged might treat pages of THPs as shared if any page of
+that THP is shared. Exceeding the number would block the collapse::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_shared
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 2f73d2aa9ae8..cf518fc44098 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -583,7 +583,8 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
folio = page_folio(page);
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_anon(folio), folio);
- if (page_mapcount(page) > 1) {
+ /* See hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(). */
+ if (folio_likely_mapped_shared(folio)) {
++shared;
if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared) {
@@ -1317,8 +1318,20 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
result = SCAN_PAGE_NULL;
goto out_unmap;
}
+ folio = page_folio(page);
- if (page_mapcount(page) > 1) {
+ if (!folio_test_anon(folio)) {
+ result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON;
+ goto out_unmap;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We treat a single page as shared if any part of the THP
+ * is shared. "False negatives" from
+ * folio_likely_mapped_shared() are not expected to matter
+ * much in practice.
+ */
+ if (folio_likely_mapped_shared(folio)) {
++shared;
if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared) {
@@ -1328,7 +1341,6 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
}
}
- folio = page_folio(page);
/*
* Record which node the original page is from and save this
* information to cc->node_load[].
@@ -1349,10 +1361,6 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
goto out_unmap;
}
- if (!folio_test_anon(folio)) {
- result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON;
- goto out_unmap;
- }
/*
* Check if the page has any GUP (or other external) pins.