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thp/khugepaged improvements and CoW semantics

From:  "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill-AT-shutemov.name>
To:  akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange-AT-redhat.com>
Subject:  [PATCHv2 0/8] thp/khugepaged improvements and CoW semantics
Date:  Fri, 3 Apr 2020 14:29:20 +0300
Message-ID:  <20200403112928.19742-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc:  Zi Yan <ziy-AT-nvidia.com>, Yang Shi <yang.shi-AT-linux.alibaba.com>, linux-mm-AT-kvack.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov-AT-linux.intel.com>
Archive-link:  Article

The patchset adds khugepaged selftest (anon-THP only for now), expands
cases khugepaged can handle and switches anon-THP copy-on-write handling
to 4k.

Please review and consider applying.

v2:
 - Fix race in compound page handling;
 - Add one more test-case for compound page case;
 - Rework LRU add cache draining;
 - Typos;

Kirill A. Shutemov (8):
  khugepaged: Add self test
  khugepaged: Do not stop collapse if less than half PTEs are referenced
  khugepaged: Drain all LRU caches before scanning pages
  khugepaged: Drain LRU add pagevec after swapin
  khugepaged: Allow to callapse a page shared across fork
  khugepaged: Allow to collapse PTE-mapped compound pages
  thp: Change CoW semantics for anon-THP
  khugepaged: Introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst |   7 +
 include/trace/events/huge_memory.h         |   3 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c                           | 249 +-----
 mm/khugepaged.c                            | 184 +++-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile        |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/khugepaged.c    | 982 +++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 1153 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/khugepaged.c

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2.26.0



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