From fe2817e3d5ea347214342c9a5cd8bcbff20c0574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:39:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: preserve dirty bits when collapsing PTE-mapped THPs try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp() clears PTEs without transferring their dirty bits to the folio. A shmem read fault can map a clean folio writable, so a later store only dirties the PTE. Losing that dirty bit allows reclaim to discard modified data. The assumption that regular files are read-only is also obsolete since commit 1b6444331bebb ("mm/khugepaged: enable clean pagecache folio collapse for writable files"). In any case, transferring PTE dirty bits to the folio when removing mappings (and while the folio is still mapped) is the right thing to do. Use get_and_clear_ptes() to collect the dirty bits and mark the folio dirty before unmapping it. Update the comment. This was reproduced with shmem using MADV_COLLAPSE followed by MADV_PAGEOUT. Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private. Fixes: 27e1f8273113 ("khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP") Fixes: 1b6444331bebb ("mm/khugepaged: enable clean pagecache folio collapse for writable files") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Mason [ david: adjust comment; simplify description; cover file-thp as well ] Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261031-fixes_core-v3-17-d6437171ecc3@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) --- mm/khugepaged.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index 34ebb37c862c..ce794d9760a8 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1995,9 +1995,10 @@ static enum scan_result try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsign /* * Must clear entry, or a racing truncate may re-remove it. * TLB flush can be left until pmdp_collapse_flush() does it. - * PTE dirty? Shmem page is already dirty; file is read-only. */ - clear_ptes(mm, addr, pte, nr_batch_ptes); + ptent = get_and_clear_ptes(mm, addr, pte, nr_batch_ptes); + if (pte_dirty(ptent)) + folio_mark_dirty(folio); folio_remove_rmap_ptes(folio, page, nr_batch_ptes, vma); nr_mapped_ptes += nr_batch_ptes; }