mm: shmem: fix khugepaged activation policy for shmem

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Shmem has a separate interface (different from anonymous pages) to control
huge page allocation, that means shmem THP can be enabled while anonymous
THP is disabled.  However, in this case, khugepaged will not start to
collapse shmem THP, which is unreasonable.

To fix this issue, we should call start_stop_khugepaged() to activate or
deactivate the khugepaged thread when setting shmem mTHP interfaces. 
Moreover, add a new helper shmem_hpage_pmd_enabled() to help to check
whether shmem THP is enabled, which will determine if khugepaged should be
activated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b9c6cbc4499bf44c6455367fd9e0f6036525680.1726978977.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Baolin Wang 2024-09-22 12:32:13 +08:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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include/linux/shmem_fs.h

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