From: Lian Wang <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
To: damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sj@kernel.org,
gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com, daichaobing@sangfor.com.cn,
lianux.wang@processmission.com, lianux.mm@gmail.com,
kunwu.chan@gmail.com
Subject: [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 2/5] mm/khugepaged: add damon_collapse_folio_range() for external callers
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 17:52:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260702095227.75866-3-lianux.mm@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702095227.75866-1-lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Export a thin wrapper around collapse_huge_page() that allows external
subsystems such as DAMON to trigger THP collapse on a target address
range.
Currently restricted to PMD order (HPAGE_PMD_ORDER), since
collapse_huge_page() does not yet support arbitrary mTHP orders.
The restriction can be relaxed when khugepaged gains mTHP support.
The caller must hold a reference to @mm. Do not hold mmap lock:
collapse_huge_page() acquires mmap_read_lock for validation, releases
it, then acquires mmap_write_lock for the actual collapse. Holding
an outer mmap_read_lock would cause a self-deadlock when the same
thread attempts the inner mmap_write_lock.
Co-developed-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lian Wang <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lian Wang <lianux.wang@processmission.com>
---
include/linux/khugepaged.h | 9 ++++++++
mm/khugepaged.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/khugepaged.h b/include/linux/khugepaged.h
index d7a9053ff4fe..f7d49cba712f 100644
--- a/include/linux/khugepaged.h
+++ b/include/linux/khugepaged.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ extern bool current_is_khugepaged(void);
void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
bool install_pmd);
+int damon_collapse_folio_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start_addr,
+ unsigned int target_order);
+
static inline void khugepaged_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{
if (mm_flags_test(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, oldmm))
@@ -47,6 +50,12 @@ static inline void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm,
{
}
+static inline int damon_collapse_folio_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start_addr, unsigned int target_order)
+{
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
static inline void khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update(void)
{
}
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..7fe9ce1e0533 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -3272,3 +3272,49 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
return thps == ((hend - hstart) >> HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT) ? 0
: madvise_collapse_errno(last_fail);
}
+
+/**
+ * damon_collapse_folio_range() - Collapse base pages in range into a THP
+ * @mm: mm_struct of the target process
+ * @start_addr: start address (must be order-aligned)
+ * @target_order: page order of the collapse result (currently only
+ * HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is supported)
+ *
+ * Thin wrapper around collapse_huge_page() for external callers such as
+ * DAMON. The caller must hold a reference to @mm. Do not hold mmap
+ * lock: collapse_huge_page() acquires mmap_read_lock for validation,
+ * releases it, then acquires mmap_write_lock for the collapse. Holding
+ * an outer mmap_read_lock would self-deadlock.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, -EINVAL on bad arguments, negative error from
+ * madvise_collapse_errno() otherwise.
+ */
+int damon_collapse_folio_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start_addr,
+ unsigned int target_order)
+{
+ struct collapse_control *cc;
+ enum scan_result result;
+
+ if (target_order != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
+ pr_warn_once("%s: only PMD order (%u) is supported, got %u\n",
+ __func__, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, target_order);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (start_addr & ((PAGE_SIZE << target_order) - 1))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ cc = kmalloc_obj(*cc);
+ if (!cc)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ cc->is_khugepaged = false;
+ cc->progress = 0;
+
+ lru_add_drain_all();
+
+ result = collapse_huge_page(mm, start_addr, 1, 0, cc, target_order);
+ kfree(cc);
+ if (result == SCAN_SUCCEED || result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
+ return 0;
+ return madvise_collapse_errno(result);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(damon_collapse_folio_range);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 9:52 [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm/damon: add mTHP collapse and split actions Lian Wang
2026-07-02 9:52 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 1/5] mm/damon: add target_order field for DAMOS_COLLAPSE Lian Wang
2026-07-02 9:52 ` Lian Wang [this message]
2026-07-02 9:52 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 3/5] mm/damon/vaddr: implement mTHP-aware DAMOS_COLLAPSE handler Lian Wang
2026-07-02 9:52 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 4/5] mm/damon: introduce DAMOS_SPLIT action Lian Wang
2026-07-02 9:52 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 5/5] mm/damon/vaddr: implement DAMOS_SPLIT handler Lian Wang
2026-07-02 16:39 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm/damon: add mTHP collapse and split actions SJ Park
[not found] <20260702094633.75658-1-lianux.mm@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20260702094633.75658-3-lianux.mm@gmail.com>
2026-07-02 11:07 ` [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 2/5] mm/khugepaged: add damon_collapse_folio_range() for external callers Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 19:43 ` SJ Park
2026-07-02 20:32 ` SJ Park
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