linux-kernel - Re: [stable-6.6.y] mm: khugepaged refuses to freeze

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Message-ID: <3d0f189b-faab-4452-b9cc-8f4e7a15025f@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 11:33:30 +0800
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
 Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>, Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
 Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable-6.6.y] mm: khugepaged refuses to freeze



On 2/6/26 10:47 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm looking at a slightly unusual issue where khugepaged refuses to
> freeze during system suspend:
> 
> ...
>   PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
>   Filesystems sync: 0.003 seconds
>   Freezing user space processes
>   Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.003 seconds)
>   OOM killer disabled.
>   Freezing remaining freezable tasks
>   Freezing remaining freezable tasks failed after 20.004 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
>   task:khugepaged      state:D stack:0     pid:1345  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
>   Call Trace:
>    <TASK>
>    schedule+0x523/0x16a0
>    ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x90
>    ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
>    ? wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0xc5/0x170
>    schedule_timeout+0x23b/0x6e0
>    ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
>    ? wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0xc5/0x170
>    io_schedule_timeout+0x3f/0x80
>    wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0xe4/0x170
>    submit_bio_wait+0x79/0xc0
>    swap_readpage+0x150/0x2d0
>    ? __pfx_submit_bio_wait_endio+0x10/0x10
>    swap_cluster_readahead+0x3be/0x750
>    ? __pfx_workingset_update_node+0x10/0x10
>    shmem_swapin+0xa7/0x100
>    shmem_swapin_folio+0xcd/0x2e0
>    shmem_get_folio+0x237/0x580
>    collapse_file+0x247/0x1280
>    hpage_collapse_scan_file+0x26e/0x380
>    khugepaged+0x43b/0x810
>    kthread+0xfb/0x120
>    ? __pfx_khugepaged+0x10/0x10
>    ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
>    ret_from_fork+0x38/0x50
>    ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
>    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
>    </TASK>
> ...
> 
> The system is using zram swap.  I wonder if khugepaged should
> be suspend/freeze aware.  Does something like below make sense?
> Or is the problem elsewhere?
> 
> ---
>   mm/khugepaged.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index eff9e3061925..fa6a018b20a8 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1894,6 +1894,9 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>   		xas_set(&xas, index);
>   		folio = xas_load(&xas);
>   
> +		if (try_to_freeze())
> +			goto xa_unlocked;
> +
>   		VM_BUG_ON(index != xas.xa_index);
>   		if (is_shmem) {
>   			if (!folio) {

Your analysis is reasonable. When the system is freezing, khugepaged is 
still trying to swap-in shmem to collapse, which prevents the system 
from entering suspend state. However, it’s not only shmem that will swap 
in, collapsing anonymous folios may also trigger swap-in operations.

Therefore, I think we should skip all collapse scans for anonymous and 
file pages in the main scan function khugepaged_do_scan() if the system 
is attempting to freeze.

Some sample code is as follows:

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index fa1e57fd2c46..cfa7882585ad 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2560,9 +2560,18 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(struct 
collapse_control *cc)
         lru_add_drain_all();

         while (true) {
+               bool was_frozen;
+
                 cond_resched();

-               if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop()))
+               if (unlikely(kthread_freezable_should_stop(&was_frozen)))
+                       break;
+
+               /*
+                * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call 
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot()
+                * after returning from the refrigerator
+                */
+               if (was_frozen)
                         break;

                 spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock);