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| Luiz Capitulino <luizcap-AT-redhat.com> |
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| [PATCH v5 00/14] mm: thp: always enable mTHP support |
| Date: |
| Fri, 29 May 2026 10:55:18 -0400 |
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Today, if an architecture implements has_transparent_hugepage() and the CPU
lacks support for PMD-sized pages, the THP code disables all THP, including
mTHP. In addition, the kernel lacks a well defined API to check for
PMD-sized page support. It currently relies on has_transparent_hugepage()
and thp_disabled_by_hw(), but they are not well defined and are tied to
THP support.
This series addresses both issues by introducing a new well defined API
to query PMD-sized page support: pgtable_has_pmd_leaves(). Using this
new helper, we ensure that mTHP remains enabled even when the
architecture or CPU doesn't support PMD-sized pages.
Thanks to David Hildenbrand for suggesting this improvement and for
providing guidance (all bugs and misconceptions are mine).
This applies to Linus tree eb3f4b7426cf ("Merge tag 'nfsd-7.1-2'
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux")
NOTE: I used Claude Code Opus 4.6 to review the series before
posting. No issues found.
v5
--
- Moved init_arch_has_pmd_leaves() to mm_core_init() (David)
- Renamed init_arch_has_pmd_leaves() to pgtable_leaf_support_init() (Lance)
- Added new patch changing shmem_getattr() to set blksize according to
highest supported THP order (Baolin)
- Added new patches to move has_transparent_hugepage() out of
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE guards (Sashiko)
- shmem_allowable_huge_orders(): rename variable and only disable
PMD_ORDER (David)
- Added <linux/jmp_label.h> to include/linux/pgtable.h (Sashiko)
- Added new tags and removed Reviewed-by from changed patches
v4
--
- Used static key for pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() API (Lance)
- Moved shmem pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() check to
shmem_allowable_huge_orders() (Baolin)
- Default pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() implementation to
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) (Zi)
- Dropped patch “mm: thp: x86: cleanup PSE feature bit usage” (Dave)
v3
--
- Rebased on top of latest Linus tree
- Removed i915 patch as driver dropped has_transparent_hugepage() usage
- Moved init_arch_has_pmd_leaves() call in start_kernel() to avoid conflict
with early_param handlers clearing CPU feature flags
- Fixed build error with CONFIG_MMU=n (kernel test robot)
- Fixed huge_anon_orders_inherit default setting when !pgtable_pmd_leaves() (Baolin)
- Small commit changelog improvements
v2
--
- Added support for always enabling mTHPs for shmem (Baolin)
- Improved commits changelog & added reviewed-by
v1
--
- Call init_arch_has_pmd_leaves() from start_kernel()
- Keep pgtable_has_pmd_leaves() calls tied to CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE (David)
- Clear PUD_ORDER when clearing PMD_ORDER (David)
- Small changelog improvements (David)
- Rebased on top of latest mm-new
Luiz Capitulino (14):
docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference
mm: shmem: shmem_getattr(): set blksize to highest supported THP order
mm: introduce pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
drivers: dax: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
drivers: nvdimm: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
mm: debug_vm_pgtable: use pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
mm: shmem: allow THP support determination at folio allocation time
s390: move has_transparent_hugepage() out of THP guard
powerpc: move has_transparent_hugepage() out of THP guard
mips: move has_transparent_hugepage() out of THP guard
x86: move has_transparent_hugepage() out of THP guard
treewide: introduce arch_has_pmd_leaves()
mm: replace thp_disabled_by_hw() with pgtable_has_pmd_leaves()
mm: thp: always enable mTHP support
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 5 ++--
arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 ++--
arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c | 8 ++---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-4k.h | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash-64k.h | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 18 ++++++------
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h | 14 ++++-----
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c | 8 ++---
arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++----
drivers/dax/dax-private.h | 2 +-
drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c | 6 ++--
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 7 -----
include/linux/pgtable.h | 20 +++++++++++--
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 20 ++++++-------
mm/huge_memory.c | 27 ++++++++++++-----
mm/memory.c | 11 ++++++-
mm/mm_init.c | 1 +
mm/shmem.c | 29 ++++++++++++-------
19 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
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