The patch titled Subject: mm: mmap: register suitable readonly file vmas for khugepaged has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-mmap-register-suitable-readonly-file-vmas-for-khugepaged.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-mmap-register-suitable-readonly-file-vmas-for-khugepaged.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: mmap: register suitable readonly file vmas for khugepaged The readonly FS THP relies on khugepaged to collapse THP for suitable vmas. But the behavior is inconsistent for "always" mode (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00f195d4-d039-3cf2-d3a1-a2c88de397a0@xxxxxxx/). The "always" mode means THP allocation should be tried all the time and khugepaged should try to collapse THP all the time. Of course the allocation and collapse may fail due to other factors and conditions. Currently file THP may not be collapsed by khugepaged even though all the conditions are met. That does break the semantics of "always" mode. So make sure readonly FS vmas are registered to khugepaged to fix the break. Register suitable vmas in common mmap path, that could cover both readonly FS vmas and shmem vmas, so remove the khugepaged calls in shmem.c. Still need to keep the khugepaged call in vma_merge() since vma_merge() is called in a lot of places, for example, madvise, mprotect, etc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510203222.24246-9-shy828301@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastmil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 6 ++++++ mm/shmem.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-mmap-register-suitable-readonly-file-vmas-for-khugepaged +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -2745,6 +2745,12 @@ cannot_expand: i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); } + /* + * vma_merge() calls khugepaged_enter_vma() either, the below + * call covers the non-merge case. + */ + khugepaged_enter_vma(vma, vma->vm_flags); + /* Once vma denies write, undo our temporary denial count */ unmap_writable: if (file && vm_flags & VM_SHARED) --- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-mmap-register-suitable-readonly-file-vmas-for-khugepaged +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/uio.h> -#include <linux/khugepaged.h> #include <linux/hugetlb.h> #include <linux/fs_parser.h> #include <linux/swapfile.h> @@ -2232,7 +2231,6 @@ static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, file_accessed(file); vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops; - khugepaged_enter_vma(vma, vma->vm_flags); return 0; } @@ -4133,8 +4131,6 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru vma->vm_file = file; vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops; - khugepaged_enter_vma(vma, vma->vm_flags); - return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shy828301@xxxxxxxxx are sched-coredumph-clarify-the-use-of-mmf_vm_hugepage.patch mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-check-for-vm_no_khugepaged.patch mm-khugepaged-skip-dax-vma.patch mm-thp-only-regular-file-could-be-thp-eligible.patch mm-khugepaged-make-khugepaged_enter-void-function.patch mm-khugepaged-make-hugepage_vma_check-non-static.patch mm-khugepaged-introduce-khugepaged_enter_vma-helper.patch mm-mmap-register-suitable-readonly-file-vmas-for-khugepaged.patch