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mm: fs: remove filemap_nr_thps*() functions and their users
authorZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Sun, 17 May 2026 13:54:08 +0000 (09:54 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:37:15 +0000 (11:37 -0700)
commit044925f9b56501f893bbfb7f4acfdbe0f5fba0d1
tree88690b2243cd6a3129628d3b3c49422b66c5d7da
parente4df0f37bd95bff5eb64e2a28eba378d64f4c01e
mm: fs: remove filemap_nr_thps*() functions and their users

They are used by READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS to handle writes to FSes without
large folio support, so that read-only THPs created in these FSes are not
seen by the FSes when the underlying fd becomes writable.  Now read-only
PMD THPs only appear in a FS with large folio support and the supported
orders include PMD_ORDER.

READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS was using mapping->nr_thps, inode->i_writecount, and
smp_mb() to prevent writes to a read-only THP and collapsing writable
folios into a THP.  In collapse_file(), mapping->nr_thps is increased,
then smp_mb(), and if inode->i_writecount > 0, collapse is stopped, while
do_dentry_open() first increases inode->i_writecount, then a full memory
fence, and if mapping->nr_thps > 0, all read-only THPs are truncated.

Now this mechanism can be removed along with READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS code,
since a dirty folio check has been added after try_to_unmap() in
collapse_file() to prevent dirty folios from being collapsed as clean.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260517135416.1434539-7-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/open.c
include/linux/pagemap.h
mm/filemap.c
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/khugepaged.c