The DAX vma may be seen by khugepaged when the mm has other khugepaged suitable vmas. So khugepaged may try to collapse THP for DAX vma, but it will fail due to page sanity check, for example, page is not on LRU. So it is not harmful, but it is definitely pointless to run khugepaged against DAX vma, so skip it in early check. Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index 7d197d9e3258..964a4d2c942a 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ static bool hugepage_vma_check(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (vm_flags & VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED) return false; + /* Don't run khugepaged against DAX vma */ + if (vma_is_dax(vma)) + return false; + if (vma->vm_file && !IS_ALIGNED((vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT) - vma->vm_pgoff, HPAGE_PMD_NR)) return false; -- 2.26.3
