linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH] page_alloc: allow migration of smaller hugepages during contig

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Message-ID: <20251020170615.1000819-1-gourry@gourry.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:06:15 -0400
From: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] page_alloc: allow migration of smaller hugepages during contig_alloc.

We presently skip regions with hugepages entirely when trying to do
contiguous page allocation.  Instead, if hugepage migration is enabled,
consider regions with hugepages smaller than the target contiguous
allocation request as valid targets for allocation.

Compaction `isolate_migrate_pages_block()` already expects requests
with hugepages to originate from alloc_contig, and hugetlb code also
does a migratable check when isolating in `folio_isolate_hugetlb()`.

We add the migration check here to avoid calling compaction on a
region if we know migration is not possible at all.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 600d9e981c23..e0760eafe032 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7048,8 +7048,14 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		if (PageReserved(page))
 			return false;

-		if (PageHuge(page))
-			return false;
+		if (PageHuge(page)) {
+			struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
+
+			/* Don't consider moving same size/larger pages */
+			if (!folio_test_hugetlb_migratable(folio) ||
+			    (1 << folio_order(folio) >= nr_pages))
+				return false;
+		}
 	}
 	return true;
 }
-- 
2.51.0