Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract young page check into collapse_is_referenced() helper

Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <20260730075217.qulyrc5s7olumqzp@master>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:47:00AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>On 7/15/26 04:59, Nico Pache wrote:
>> This change deduplicates the "is this PTE/folio referenced enough to be
>> considered for a collapse" condition that was repeated in both
>> __collapse_huge_page_isolate() and collapse_scan_pmd(), extracting it into
>> a single inline helper function.
>> 
>> Also move the comment and use it as the function header. While we are at
>> it, updated the comment to clarify that a young pte is a recently accessed
>> one.
>> 
>> Acked-by: Usama Arif <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
>> ---
>
>Also, do we really need this (badly named :) ) helper given that there will only
>be a single invocation after #5?
>

Hi, David

I see collapse_is_referenced() is invoked by collapse_scan_pmd() and
__collapse_huge_page_isolate() after applying the whole series.

I didn't see #5 refactor this out. Or I missed something?

>-- 
>Cheers,
>
>David

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