linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large anon folios

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:18:35 +0100
From:   Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large anon folios

In preparation for the introduction of large folios for anonymous
memory, we would like to be able to split them when they have unmapped
subpages, in order to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So
remove the artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at
least PMD-sized.

Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
---
 mm/rmap.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 0c0d8857dfce..eb0bb00dae34 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1426,11 +1426,11 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, idx, -nr);
 
 		/*
-		 * Queue anon THP for deferred split if at least one
+		 * Queue anon large folio for deferred split if at least one
 		 * page of the folio is unmapped and at least one page
 		 * is still mapped.
 		 */
-		if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
+		if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
 			if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)
 				deferred_split_folio(folio);
 	}
-- 
2.25.1