From: Yang Shi Subject: mm: khugepaged: skip DAX vma The DAX vma may be seen by khugepaged when the mm has other khugepaged suitable vmas. So khugepaged may try to collapse THP for DAX vma, but it will fail due to page sanity check, for example, page is not on LRU. So it is not harmful, but it is definitely pointless to run khugepaged against DAX vma, so skip it in early check. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404200250.321455-4-shy828301@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Acked-by: Song Liu Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-skip-dax-vma +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ static bool hugepage_vma_check(struct vm if (vm_flags & VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED) return false; + /* Don't run khugepaged against DAX vma */ + if (vma_is_dax(vma)) + return false; + if (vma->vm_file && !IS_ALIGNED((vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT) - vma->vm_pgoff, HPAGE_PMD_NR)) return false; _