[PATCH v2 2/2] mm: convert do_set_pmd() to take a folio

From: Baolin Wang
Date: Fri May 09 2025 - 09:01:50 EST


In do_set_pmd(), we always use the folio->page to build PMD mappings for
the entire folio. Since all callers of do_set_pmd() already hold a stable
folio, converting do_set_pmd() to take a folio is safe and more straightforward.

In addition, to ensure the extensibility of do_set_pmd() for supporting
larger folios beyond PMD size, we keep the 'page' parameter to specify
which page within the folio should be mapped.

No functional changes expected.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v1:
- Keep the 'page' parameter of the do_set_pmd().

Note: I did mm selftests and built kernel on tmpfs/xfs filesystems, and
did not find any regression.
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
mm/memory.c | 11 +++++------
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 43748c8f3454..d5f578c91e77 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return pte;
}

-vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page);
+vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, struct page *page);
void set_pte_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
struct page *page, unsigned int nr, unsigned long addr);

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 7b90cbeb4a1a..09d005848f0d 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3533,7 +3533,7 @@ static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,

if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
struct page *page = folio_file_page(folio, start);
- vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
+ vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, folio, page);
if (!ret) {
/* The page is mapped successfully, reference consumed. */
folio_unlock(folio);
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index aca66e7f4fd9..c4b5031f3254 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ static int set_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,

mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm);

- if (do_set_pmd(&vmf, &folio->page))
+ if (do_set_pmd(&vmf, folio, &folio->page))
return SCAN_FAIL;

folio_get(folio);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 68c1d962d0ad..9c202c32ca66 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -5176,9 +5176,8 @@ static void deposit_prealloc_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf)
vmf->prealloc_pte = NULL;
}

-vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
+vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, struct page *page)
{
- struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
unsigned long haddr = vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
@@ -5251,7 +5250,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
return ret;
}
#else
-vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
+vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, struct page *page)
{
return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
}
@@ -5345,6 +5344,7 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
else
page = vmf->page;

+ folio = page_folio(page);
/*
* check even for read faults because we might have lost our CoWed
* page
@@ -5356,8 +5356,8 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
}

if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)) {
- if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
- ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
+ if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
+ ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, folio, page);
if (ret != VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
return ret;
}
@@ -5368,7 +5368,6 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
}

- folio = page_folio(page);
nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);

/*
--
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