From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
To: david@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ryan.roberts@arm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Subject: [RFC 02/10] mm: introduce pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:28:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50fc95b4c806eb4bfcdb578f2ce8d634faf93d57.1762464515.git.luizcap@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1762464515.git.luizcap@redhat.com>
This is a new helper which can be used to check if the architecture
supports PMD-sized pages. It's intended to replace two existing helpers:
- has_transparent_hugepages(): it's used to check for PMD-sized pages
(not exactly THP support), but it may perform a hardware check so it's
not intended to be used in fast paths
- thp_disabled_by_hw(): also checks for PMD-sized pages support, but
uses a cached value
pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() implementation is split in two parts:
1. init_arch_has_pmd_leaves(): runs at boottime as early_initcall as a
wrapper to has_transparent_hugepages(). The result is cached
2. pgtable_has_pmd_leaves(): just returns the cached value
The next commits will convert users of both has_transparent_hugepages()
and thp_disabled_by_hw() to pgtable_has_pmd_leaves().
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 10 ++++++++++
mm/memory.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 32e8457ad535..e4c5f70b0a01 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -2001,6 +2001,16 @@ static inline const char *pgtable_level_to_str(enum pgtable_level level)
}
}
+/*
+ * IMPORTANT: pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() can only be called after
+ * early_initcall, since that's when __arch_has_pmd_leaves is set
+ */
+extern bool __arch_has_pmd_leaves;
+static inline bool pgtable_has_pmd_leaves(void)
+{
+ return __arch_has_pmd_leaves;
+}
+
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
#if !defined(MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS) && !defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 74b45e258323..7b50f3ec9b37 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -176,6 +176,16 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
}
early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
+bool __arch_has_pmd_leaves __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_has_pmd_leaves);
+
+static int __init init_arch_has_pmd_leaves(void)
+{
+ __arch_has_pmd_leaves = has_transparent_hugepage();
+ return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(init_arch_has_pmd_leaves);
+
void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
trace_rss_stat(mm, member);
--
2.51.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-06 21:28 [RFC 00/10] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 01/10] docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-06 21:28 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 03/10] drivers: dax: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:28 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 04/10] drivers: i915 selftest: " Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 17:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 18:55 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-12-02 10:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-03 13:19 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 05/10] drivers: nvdimm: " Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:32 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 06/10] mm: debug_vm_pgtable: " Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-03 22:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 07/10] treewide: rename has_transparent_hugepage() to arch_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 19:01 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-12-02 10:53 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 08/10] mm: replace thp_disabled_by_hw() with pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 09/10] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 19:14 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-06 21:28 ` [RFC 10/10] mm: thp: x86: cleanup PSE feature bit usage Luiz Capitulino
2025-11-17 17:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 19:15 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-12-03 13:58 ` [RFC 00/10] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-12-03 18:41 ` Luiz Capitulino
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