Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups

On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:24:58 -0600 "Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The following changes stem from a number of reviews during my khugepaged
> mTHP support series [1]. Some of these are minor code cleanups, issues or
> reviews that we decided to deferred to a followup series, or in the case
> of the more major patch of the series, changes [2] Lance Yang attempted
> while my series was in-flight and we decided to wait till later to try.
> 
> The first 3 patches introduce helper functions to increase code reuse and
> readability. This includes a per-scan state clearing function, extracting
> the young page check into a helper, and a count_collapse_event() function
> to reduce a repetative pattern used across mTHP collapse.
> 
> The 4th patch was the byproduct of me throwing Claude at all the
> comments in khugepaged verifying and looking for any outdated info.
> 
> The 5th patch is based on Lance Yang's commit series [2] trying to extract
> the PTE state checking into a helper function. This required a bit of
> rewriting due to differences after mTHP collapse was introduced. I also
> took into account the changes requested during his patches review cycle.
> 
> The remaining 2 patches were review points during my mTHP series that we
> agreed can be deferred to a later series.

So "no functional change intended"?

Sashiko had a little doc niggle:
	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]