Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract reference check into folio_pte_referenced() helper

"Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 8/11/26 6:48 AM, Nico Pache (Red Hat) 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 (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
> ---

Hi Andrew, 

Can you please append the following fixup!

Thank you :) 

commit 20fa354b27d9be91e12c3c3144f6b3d8d38542f3
Author: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Aug 21 04:27:18 2026 -0600

    fixup! mm/khugepaged: extract reference check into folio_pte_referenced() helper
    
    Drop the trivial helper kerneldoc and inline marker per review.
    
    Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <[email protected]>

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 8babd4c97db6..34654d1c1259 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -672,13 +672,7 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte,
 	}
 }
 
-/*
- * folio_pte_referenced() - Check if a folio or its PTE mapping was recently used
- *
- * Return: true if recent access was observed through either the folio state
- * or the current PTE mapping.
- */
-static inline bool folio_pte_referenced(struct folio *folio,
+static bool folio_pte_referenced(struct folio *folio,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t pteval)
 {
 	/* The folio was referenced previously ... */


>  mm/khugepaged.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 1e26ea97381a..8babd4c97db6 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -672,6 +672,22 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * folio_pte_referenced() - Check if a folio or its PTE mapping was recently used
> + *
> + * Return: true if recent access was observed through either the folio state
> + * or the current PTE mapping.
> + */
> +static inline bool folio_pte_referenced(struct folio *folio,
> +		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t pteval)
> +{
> +	/* The folio was referenced previously ... */
> +	if (folio_test_young(folio) || folio_test_referenced(folio))
> +		return true;
> +	/* ... or the PTE mapping was recently used */
> +	return pte_young(pteval) || mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, addr);
> +}
> +
>  static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		unsigned long start_addr, pte_t *pte, struct collapse_control *cc,
>  		unsigned int order, struct list_head *compound_pagelist)
> @@ -810,14 +826,8 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		if (folio_test_large(folio))
>  			list_add_tail(&folio->lru, compound_pagelist);
>  next:
> -		/*
> -		 * If collapse was initiated by khugepaged, check that there is
> -		 * enough young pte to justify collapsing the page
> -		 */
>  		if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
> -		    (pte_young(pteval) || folio_test_young(folio) ||
> -		     folio_test_referenced(folio) ||
> -		     mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, addr)))
> +		    folio_pte_referenced(folio, vma, addr, pteval))
>  			referenced++;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1766,14 +1776,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  			goto out_unmap;
>  		}
>  
> -		/*
> -		 * If collapse was initiated by khugepaged, check that there is
> -		 * enough young pte to justify collapsing the page
> -		 */
>  		if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
> -		    (pte_young(pteval) || folio_test_young(folio) ||
> -		     folio_test_referenced(folio) ||
> -		     mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, addr)))
> +		    folio_pte_referenced(folio, vma, addr, pteval))
>  			referenced++;
>  	}
>  	if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
>
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