On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 03:21:05AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 12:22:28PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
>[...]
>>@@ -4079,6 +4091,36 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned
>>int new_order,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>>+/*
>>+ * This function is a helper for splitting folios that have already been
>>unmapped.
>>+ * The use case is that the device or the CPU can refuse to migrate THP
>>pages in
>>+ * the middle of migration, due to allocation issues on either side
>>+ *
>>+ * The high level code is copied from __folio_split, since the pages are
>>anonymous
>>+ * and are already isolated from the LRU, the code has been simplified to not
>>+ * burden __folio_split with unmapped sprinkled into the code.
>>+ *
>>+ * None of the split folios are unlocked
>>+ */
>>+int folio_split_unmapped(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order)
>>+{
>>+ int extra_pins, ret = 0;
>>+
>>+ VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(folio_mapped(folio), folio);
>>+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
>>+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio);
>>+
>
>Compared with original logic, we did check folio_split_supported() and
>check whether new_order is supported for the file system.
>
>Currently folio_split_unmapped() only pass 0 as new_order, which looks good.
>But for a generic helper, it looks reasonable to do the check, IMHO.
>
BTW, I proposed to do the min_order/new_order check in folio_split_supported()
in [1], which may help to make the code looks cleaner.
[1]: lkml.kernel.org/r/20251107072944.zvqvr4kyibyofhuw@master
>>+ if (!can_split_folio(folio, 1, &extra_pins))
>>+ return -EAGAIN;
>>+
>>+ local_irq_disable();
>>+ ret = __folio_freeze_and_split_unmapped(folio, new_order, &folio->page,
>>NULL,
>>+ NULL, false, NULL,
>>SPLIT_TYPE_UNIFORM,
>>+ 0, extra_pins);
>>+ local_irq_enable();
>>+ return ret;
>>+}
>>+
>> /*
>> * This function splits a large folio into smaller folios of order
>> @new_order.
>> * @page can point to any page of the large folio to split. The split
>> operation
>
>
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>Wei Yang
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