From: Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"\\  Liam R . Howlett \\ " <liam@infradead.org>,
	Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:46:37 +0200
Message-ID: <20260728204636.20998-2-jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
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Currently, khugepaged locks the khugepaged_mutex in two functions:
start_stop_khugepaged and khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update. Remove
mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage in these functions and replace it with the
guard macro. This makes the code more readable (removing a goto statement)
and makes it harder to introduce bugs in the future.
No functional changes introduced.

Signed-off-by: Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
v2:
  - Added #include <linux/cleanup.h> to the includes at the top of the file
  - Moved err declaration to the scope where it's used in
    start_stop_khugepaged
  - Made default case return 0 instead of err in start_stop_khugepaged

 mm/khugepaged.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..7890bd3e2a9d 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/ksm.h>
 #include <linux/pgalloc.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -3111,18 +3112,17 @@ void set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void)
 
 int start_stop_khugepaged(void)
 {
-	int err = 0;
-
-	mutex_lock(&khugepaged_mutex);
+	guard(mutex)(&khugepaged_mutex);
 	if (hugepage_enabled()) {
 		if (!khugepaged_thread)
 			khugepaged_thread = kthread_run(khugepaged, NULL,
 							"khugepaged");
 		if (IS_ERR(khugepaged_thread)) {
+			int err;
 			pr_err("khugepaged: kthread_run(khugepaged) failed\n");
 			err = PTR_ERR(khugepaged_thread);
 			khugepaged_thread = NULL;
-			goto fail;
+			return err;
 		}
 
 		if (!list_empty(&khugepaged_scan.mm_head))
@@ -3132,17 +3132,14 @@ int start_stop_khugepaged(void)
 		khugepaged_thread = NULL;
 	}
 	set_recommended_min_free_kbytes();
-fail:
-	mutex_unlock(&khugepaged_mutex);
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 void khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update(void)
 {
-	mutex_lock(&khugepaged_mutex);
+	guard(mutex)(&khugepaged_mutex);
 	if (hugepage_enabled() && khugepaged_thread)
 		set_recommended_min_free_kbytes();
-	mutex_unlock(&khugepaged_mutex);
 }
 
 bool current_is_khugepaged(void)
-- 
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