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mm/khugepaged: do not fail collapse_pte_mapped_thp() on SCAN_PMD_NULL
authorKiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:52:53 +0000 (14:52 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:14:15 +0000 (14:14 -0700)
MADV_COLLAPSE on a file mapping behaves inconsistently depending on if PMD
page table is installed or not.

Consider following example:

p = mmap(NULL, 2UL << 20, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
 MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
err = madvise(p, 2UL << 20, MADV_COLLAPSE);

fd is a populated tmpfs file.

The result depends on the address that the kernel returns on mmap().  If
it is located in an existing PMD table, the madvise() will succeed.
However, if the table does not exist, it will fail with -EINVAL.

This occurs because find_pmd_or_thp_or_none() returns SCAN_PMD_NULL when a
page table is missing, which causes collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to fail.

SCAN_PMD_NULL and SCAN_PMD_NONE should be treated the same in
collapse_pte_mapped_thp(): install the PMD leaf entry and allocate page
tables as needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/v5ivpub6z2n2uyemlnxgbilzs52ep4lrary7lm7o6axxoneb75@yfacfl5rkzeh
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/khugepaged.c

index af5f5c80fe4ed3d9c61e7fbcd69d0103718a2057..9ed1af2b5c388426e5dc824110fffd20ca136a01 100644 (file)
@@ -1460,15 +1460,32 @@ static void collect_mm_slot(struct khugepaged_mm_slot *mm_slot)
 static int set_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
                        pmd_t *pmdp, struct folio *folio, struct page *page)
 {
+       struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
        struct vm_fault vmf = {
                .vma = vma,
                .address = addr,
                .flags = 0,
-               .pmd = pmdp,
        };
+       pgd_t *pgdp;
+       p4d_t *p4dp;
+       pud_t *pudp;
 
        mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm);
 
+       if (!pmdp) {
+               pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
+               p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, addr);
+               if (!p4dp)
+                       return SCAN_FAIL;
+               pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, addr);
+               if (!pudp)
+                       return SCAN_FAIL;
+               pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, addr);
+               if (!pmdp)
+                       return SCAN_FAIL;
+       }
+
+       vmf.pmd = pmdp;
        if (do_set_pmd(&vmf, folio, page))
                return SCAN_FAIL;
 
@@ -1544,6 +1561,7 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
        switch (result) {
        case SCAN_SUCCEED:
                break;
+       case SCAN_PMD_NULL:
        case SCAN_PMD_NONE:
                /*
                 * All pte entries have been removed and pmd cleared.