From: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
To: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] kselftest: mm: remove check_huge_shmem()
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:26:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee423531-e2a0-4915-b089-905bba22d33a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924-fix_split-v8-4-cba7359d882a@arm.com>
On 9/25/26 12:41 AM, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> check_huge_shmem() was required to distinguish shmem huge pages because
> /proc/self/smaps reports them using a dedicated “ShmemPmdMapped” entry,
> as opposed to “FilePmdMapped” for file-backed huge pages.
>
> Now that /proc/self/smaps is no longer used to detect huge pages and
> /proc/kpageflags is used instead, it is sufficient to distinguish
> between file-backed and anonymous pages since the ShmemPmdMapped is also
> kind of file-backed.
>
> Therefore, remove check_huge_shmem() and use check_huge_file() instead
> and cleanup khugepaged's check_huge operation in mem_ops.
>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
> ---
Looks good to me, so:
Reviewed-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-25 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 19:11 [PATCH v8 0/4] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-24 19:11 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-25 12:10 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-09-25 14:25 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-24 19:11 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for __check_pmd_huge() Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-25 12:38 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-09-25 14:23 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-24 19:11 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] kselftest: mm: integrate huge page checks Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-25 12:54 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-09-24 19:11 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] kselftest: mm: remove check_huge_shmem() Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-25 12:56 ` Sarthak Sharma [this message]
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