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Arnd Bergmann
3de705a43a mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
When the -fsanitize=bounds sanitizer is enabled, gcc-16 sometimes runs
into a corner case in the read_ctrl_pos() pos function, where it sees
possible undefined behavior from the 'tier' index overflowing, presumably
in the case that this was called with a negative tier:

In function 'get_tier_idx',
    inlined from 'isolate_folios' at mm/vmscan.c:4671:14:
mm/vmscan.c: In function 'isolate_folios':
mm/vmscan.c:4645:29: error: 'pv.refaulted' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]

Part of the problem seems to be that read_ctrl_pos() has unusual calling
conventions since commit 37a260870f ("mm/mglru: rework type selection")
where passing MAX_NR_TIERS makes it accumulate all tiers but passing a
smaller positive number makes it read a single tier instead.

Shut up the warning by adding a fake initialization to the two instances
of this variable that can run into that corner case.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJHvVcjtFW86o5FoQC8MMEXCHAC0FviggaQsd5EmiCHP+1fBpg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260414065206.3236176-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:56 -07:00
Zhaoyang Huang
19999e479c mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
Android systems usually use memory.reclaim interface to implement user
space memory management which expects that the requested reclaim target
and actually reclaimed amount memory are not diverging by too much. With
the current MGRLU implementation there is, however, no bail out when the
reclaim target is reached and this could lead to an excessive reclaim
that scales with the reclaim hierarchy size.For example, we can get a
nr_reclaimed=394/nr_to_reclaim=32 proactive reclaim under a common 1-N
cgroup hierarchy.

This defect arose from the goal of keeping fairness among memcgs that is,
for try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages -> shrink_node_memcgs -> shrink_lruvec ->
lru_gen_shrink_lruvec -> try_to_shrink_lruvec, the !root_reclaim(sc) check
was there for reclaim fairness, which was necessary before commit
b82b530740 ("mm: vmscan: restore incremental cgroup iteration") because
the fairness depended on attempted proportional reclaim from every memcg
under the target memcg.  However after commit b82b530740 there is no
longer a need to visit every memcg to ensure fairness.  Let's have
try_to_shrink_lruvec bail out when the nr_reclaimed achieved.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260318011558.1696310-1-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260212032111.408865-1-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Suggested-by: T.J.Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:55 -07:00
Suren Baghdasaryan
d14514c66c mm/vmscan: prevent MGLRU reclaim from pinning address space
When shrinking lruvec, MGLRU pins address space before walking it.  This
is excessive since all it needs for walking the page range is a stable
mm_struct to be able to take and release mmap_read_lock and a stable
mm->mm_mt tree to walk.  This address space pinning results in delays when
releasing the memory of a dying process.  This also prevents mm reapers
(both in-kernel oom-reaper and userspace process_mrelease()) from doing
their job during MGLRU scan because they check task_will_free_mem() which
will yield negative result due to the elevated mm->mm_users.

This affects the system in the sense that if the MM of the killed
process is being reclaimed by kswapd then reapers won't be able to reap
it.  Even the process itself (which might have higher-priority than
kswapd) will not free its memory until kswapd drops the last reference.
IOW, we delay freeing the memory because kswapd is reclaiming it.  In
Android the visible result for us is that process_mrelease() (userspace
reaper) skips MM in such cases and we see process memory not released
for an unusually long time (secs).

Replace unnecessary address space pinning with mm_struct pinning by
replacing mmget/mmput with mmgrab/mmdrop calls.  mm_mt is contained within
mm_struct itself, therefore it won't be freed as long as mm_struct is
stable and it won't change during the walk because mmap_read_lock is being
held.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260322070843.941997-1-surenb@google.com
Fixes: bd74fdaea1 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:50 -07:00
Baolin Wang
13b6b62091 mm: vmscan: fix dirty folios throttling on cgroup v1 for MGLRU
The balance_dirty_pages() won't do the dirty folios throttling on
cgroupv1.  See commit 9badce000e ("cgroup, writeback: don't enable
cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies").

Moreover, after commit 6b0dfabb35 ("fs: Remove aops->writepage"), we no
longer attempt to write back filesystem folios through reclaim.

On large memory systems, the flusher may not be able to write back quickly
enough.  Consequently, MGLRU will encounter many folios that are already
under writeback.  Since we cannot reclaim these dirty folios, the system
may run out of memory and trigger the OOM killer.

Hence, for cgroup v1, let's throttle reclaim after waking up the flusher,
which is similar to commit 81a70c21d9 ("mm/cgroup/reclaim: fix dirty
pages throttling on cgroup v1"), to avoid unnecessary OOM.

The following test program can easily reproduce the OOM issue.  With this
patch applied, the test passes successfully.

$mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
$echo 256M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
$echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/cgroup.procs
$dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/data.bin bs=1M count=800

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3445af0f09e8ca945492e052e82594f8c4f2e2f6.1774606060.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: ac35a49023 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:49 -07:00
Muchun Song
0a98e13963 mm: lru: add VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO to lru maintenance helpers
We must ensure the folio is deleted from or added to the correct lruvec
list.  So, add VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO() to catch invalid users.  The
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in move_pages_to_lru() can be removed as
add_page_to_lru_list() will perform the necessary check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2c90fc006d9d730331a3caeef96f7e5dabe2036d.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:47 -07:00
Qi Zheng
7404bd37cf mm: workingset: use lruvec_lru_size() to get the number of lru pages
For cgroup v2, count_shadow_nodes() is the only place to read
non-hierarchical stats (lruvec_stats->state_local).  To avoid the need to
consider cgroup v2 during subsequent non-hierarchical stats reparenting,
use lruvec_lru_size() instead of lruvec_page_state_local() to get the
number of lru pages.

For NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B cases, it appears
that the statistics here have already been problematic for a while since
slab pages have been reparented.  So just ignore it for now.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b1d448c667a8fb377c3390d9aba43bdb7e4d5739.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:47 -07:00
Qi Zheng
f304652609 mm: vmscan: prepare for reparenting MGLRU folios
Similar to traditional LRU folios, in order to solve the dying memcg
problem, we also need to reparenting MGLRU folios to the parent memcg when
memcg offline.

However, there are the following challenges:

1. Each lruvec has between MIN_NR_GENS and MAX_NR_GENS generations, the
   number of generations of the parent and child memcg may be different,
   so we cannot simply transfer MGLRU folios in the child memcg to the
   parent memcg as we did for traditional LRU folios.
2. The generation information is stored in folio->flags, but we cannot
   traverse these folios while holding the lru lock, otherwise it may
   cause softlockup.
3. In walk_update_folio(), the gen of folio and corresponding lru size
   may be updated, but the folio is not immediately moved to the
   corresponding lru list. Therefore, there may be folios of different
   generations on an LRU list.
4. In lru_gen_del_folio(), the generation to which the folio belongs is
   found based on the generation information in folio->flags, and the
   corresponding LRU size will be updated. Therefore, we need to update
   the lru size correctly during reparenting, otherwise the lru size may
   be updated incorrectly in lru_gen_del_folio().

Finally, this patch chose a compromise method, which is to splice the lru
list in the child memcg to the lru list of the same generation in the
parent memcg during reparenting.  And in order to ensure that the parent
memcg has the same generation, we need to increase the generations in the
parent memcg to the MAX_NR_GENS before reparenting.

Of course, the same generation has different meanings in the parent and
child memcg, this will cause confusion in the hot and cold information of
folios.  But other than that, this method is simple enough, the lru size
is correct, and there is no need to consider some concurrency issues (such
as lru_gen_del_folio()).

To prepare for the above work, this commit implements the specific
functions, which will be used during reparenting.

[zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: use list_splice_tail_init() to reparent child folios]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260324114937.28569-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e75050354cdbc42221a04f7cf133292b61105548.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Suggested-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:47 -07:00
Qi Zheng
07a6e9a2c1 mm: vmscan: prepare for reparenting traditional LRU folios
To resolve the dying memcg issue, we need to reparent LRU folios of child
memcg to its parent memcg.  For traditional LRU list, each lruvec of every
memcg comprises four LRU lists.  Due to the symmetry of the LRU lists, it
is feasible to transfer the LRU lists from a memcg to its parent memcg
during the reparenting process.

This commit implements the specific function, which will be used during
the reparenting process.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/a92d217a9fc82bd0c401210204a095caaf615b1c.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:46 -07:00
Qi Zheng
d14f878581 mm: do not open-code lruvec lock
Now we have lruvec_unlock(), lruvec_unlock_irq() and
lruvec_unlock_irqrestore(), but no the paired lruvec_lock(),
lruvec_lock_irq() and lruvec_lock_irqsave().

There is currently no use case for lruvec_lock_irqsave(), so only
introduce lruvec_lock_irq(), and change all open-code places to use this
helper function.  This looks cleaner and prepares for reparenting LRU
pages, preventing user from missing RCU lock calls due to open-code lruvec
lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2d0bafe7564e17ece46dfd58197af22ce57017dc.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:46 -07:00
Muchun Song
c29f90a2da mm: mglru: prevent memory cgroup release in mglru
In the near future, a folio will no longer pin its corresponding memory
cgroup.  To ensure safety, it will only be appropriate to hold the rcu
read lock or acquire a reference to the memory cgroup returned by
folio_memcg(), thereby preventing it from being released.

In the current patch, the rcu read lock is employed to safeguard against
the release of the memory cgroup in mglru.

This serves as a preparatory measure for the reparenting of the LRU pages.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9d887662a9d39c425742dd8468e3123316bccfe3.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:45 -07:00
Muchun Song
a760b64ee0 mm: vmscan: refactor move_folios_to_lru()
In a subsequent patch, we'll reparent the LRU folios.  The folios that are
moved to the appropriate LRU list can undergo reparenting during the
move_folios_to_lru() process.  Hence, it's incorrect for the caller to
hold a lruvec lock.  Instead, we should utilize the more general interface
of folio_lruvec_relock_irq() to obtain the correct lruvec lock.

This patch involves only code refactoring and doesn't introduce any
functional changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6f1dac88b61e2e3cb7a3e90bacdf06b654acfc15.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:44 -07:00
Qi Zheng
676496738b mm: vmscan: prepare for the refactoring the move_folios_to_lru()
Once we refactor move_folios_to_lru(), its callers will no longer have to
hold the lruvec lock; For shrink_inactive_list(), shrink_active_list() and
evict_folios(), IRQ disabling is only needed for __count_vm_events() and
__mod_node_page_state().

To avoid using local_irq_disable() on the PREEMPT_RT kernel, let's make
all callers of move_folios_to_lru() use IRQ-safed count_vm_events() and
mod_node_page_state().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b3a202f1787b0857bb6cbe059fffb8edefaf67b7.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:44 -07:00
Muchun Song
db128b2c6b mm: rename unlock_page_lruvec_irq and its variants
It is inappropriate to use folio_lruvec_lock() variants in conjunction
with unlock_page_lruvec() variants, as this involves the inconsistent
operation of locking a folio while unlocking a page.  To rectify this, the
functions unlock_page_lruvec{_irq, _irqrestore} are renamed to
lruvec_unlock{_irq,_irqrestore}.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4e5e05271a250df4d1812e1832be65636a78c957.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:44 -07:00
Kexin Sun
f2a48f8fb5 mm: update outdated comments for removed scan_swap_map_slots()
The function scan_swap_map_slots() was removed in commit 0ff67f990b
("mm, swap: remove swap slot cache").

The three comments referencing it simply noted that ->flags can be updated
non-atomically by scan_swap_map_slots() to justify a data_race()
annotation.  Since the function no longer exists, drop the parenthetical
reference while keeping the data_race() justification intact: ->flags can
still be updated non-atomically by other paths (e.g., swapoff clearing
SWP_WRITEOK).

Assisted-by: unnamed:deepseek-v3.2 coccinelle
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260321105814.7053-1-kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:35 -07:00
Leno Hou
a6a8c087dc mm/mglru: fix cgroup OOM during MGLRU state switching
When the Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) state is toggled dynamically, a race
condition exists between the state switching and the memory reclaim path. 
This can lead to unexpected cgroup OOM kills, even when plenty of
reclaimable memory is available.

Problem Description
==================
The issue arises from a "reclaim vacuum" during the transition.

1. When disabling MGLRU, lru_gen_change_state() sets lrugen->enabled to
   false before the pages are drained from MGLRU lists back to traditional
   LRU lists.
2. Concurrent reclaimers in shrink_lruvec() see lrugen->enabled as false
   and skip the MGLRU path.
3. However, these pages might not have reached the traditional LRU lists
   yet, or the changes are not yet visible to all CPUs due to a lack
   of synchronization.
4. get_scan_count() subsequently finds traditional LRU lists empty,
   concludes there is no reclaimable memory, and triggers an OOM kill.

A similar race can occur during enablement, where the reclaimer sees the
new state but the MGLRU lists haven't been populated via fill_evictable()
yet.

Solution
========
Introduce a 'switching' state (`lru_switch`) to bridge the transition.
When transitioning, the system enters this intermediate state where
the reclaimer is forced to attempt both MGLRU and traditional reclaim
paths sequentially. This ensures that folios remain visible to at least
one reclaim mechanism until the transition is fully materialized across
all CPUs.

Race & Mitigation
================
A race window exists between checking the 'draining' state and performing
the actual list operations. For instance, a reclaimer might observe the
draining state as false just before it changes, leading to a suboptimal
reclaim path decision.

However, this impact is effectively mitigated by the kernel's reclaim
retry mechanism (e.g., in do_try_to_free_pages). If a reclaimer pass fails
to find eligible folios due to a state transition race, subsequent retries
in the loop will observe the updated state and correctly direct the scan
to the appropriate LRU lists. This ensures the transient inconsistency
does not escalate into a terminal OOM kill.

This effectively reduce the race window that previously triggered OOMs
under high memory pressure.

This fix has been verified on v7.0.0-rc1; dynamic toggling of MGLRU
functions correctly without triggering unexpected OOM kills.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-b4-switch-mglru-v2-v5-1-8898491e5f17@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Jialing Wang <wjl.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Bingfang Guo <bfguo@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:33 -07:00
Bing Jiao
d9f74cfb5a mm/vmscan: fix unintended mtc->nmask mutation in alloc_demote_folio()
In alloc_demote_folio(), mtc->nmask is set to NULL for the first
allocation.  If that succeeds, it returns without restoring mtc->nmask to
allowed_mask.  For subsequent allocations from the migrate_pages() batch,
mtc->nmask will be NULL.  If the target node then becomes full, the
fallback allocation will use nmask = NULL, allocating from any node
allowed by the task cpuset, which for kswapd is all nodes.

To address this issue, use a local copy of the mtc structure with nmask =
NULL for the first allocation attempt specifically, ensuring the original
mtc remains unmodified.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260303052519.109244-1-bingjiao@google.com
Fixes: 3200802728 ("mm/demotion: demote pages according to allocation fallback order")
Signed-off-by: Bing Jiao <bingjiao@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:18 -07:00
Baolin Wang
56e5b60b21 mm: support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU
Use the batched helper test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() to check and
clear the young flag to improve the performance during large folio
reclamation when MGLRU is enabled.

Meanwhile, we can also support batched checking the young and dirty flag
when MGLRU walks the mm's pagetable to update the folios' generation
counter.  Since MGLRU also checks the PTE dirty bit, use
folio_pte_batch_flags() with FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY set to detect batches
of PTEs for a large folio.

Then we can remove the ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify() since it has no
users now.

Note that we also update the 'young' counter and 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]'
counter with the batched count in the lru_gen_look_around() and
walk_pte_range().  However, the batched operations may inflate these two
counters, because in a large folio not all PTEs may have been accessed. 
(Additionally, tracking how many PTEs have been accessed within a large
folio is not very meaningful, since the mm core actually tracks
access/dirty on a per-folio basis, not per page).  The impact analysis is
as follows:

1. The 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]' counter has no functional impact and
   is mainly for debugging.

2. The 'young' counter is used to decide whether to place the current
   PMD entry into the bloom filters by suitable_to_scan() (so that next
   time we can check whether it has been accessed again), which may set
   the hash bit in the bloom filters for a PMD entry that hasn't seen much
   access.  However, bloom filters inherently allow some error, so this
   effect appears negligible.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/378f4acf7d07410aa7c2e4b49d56bb165918eb34.1772778858.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:16 -07:00
Baolin Wang
37fb436ff6 mm: rename ptep/pmdp_clear_young_notify() to ptep/pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify()
Rename ptep/pmdp_clear_young_notify() to
ptep/pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify() to make the function names
consistent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b3454077ce88745e6f88386b1763721746884565.1772778858.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:15 -07:00
Tal Zussman
4e1d77a8f3 folio_batch: rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b ("mm: remove struct
pagevec").  Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide.  Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:07 -07:00
Thomas Ballasi
874a0a566e mm: vmscan: add cgroup IDs to vmscan tracepoints
Memory reclaim events are currently difficult to attribute to specific
cgroups, making debugging memory pressure issues challenging.  This patch
adds memory cgroup ID (memcg_id) to key vmscan tracepoints to enable
better correlation and analysis.

For operations not associated with a specific cgroup, the field is
defaulted to 0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260316160908.42727-3-tballasi@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ballasi <tballasi@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:04 -07:00
Vernon Yang
6cc153f90b mm: add folio_test_lazyfree helper
Add folio_test_lazyfree() function to identify lazy-free folios to improve
code readability.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260221093918.1456187-4-vernon2gm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:03 -07:00
JP Kobryn (Meta)
e4f4fc7aa8 mm: move pgscan, pgsteal, pgrefill to node stats
There are situations where reclaim kicks in on a system with free memory. 
One possible cause is a NUMA imbalance scenario where one or more nodes
are under pressure.  It would help if we could easily identify such nodes.

Move the pgscan, pgsteal, and pgrefill counters from vm_event_item to
node_stat_item to provide per-node reclaim visibility.  With these
counters as node stats, the values are now displayed in the per-node
section of /proc/zoneinfo, which allows for quick identification of the
affected nodes.

/proc/vmstat continues to report the same counters, aggregated across all
nodes.  But the ordering of these items within the readout changes as they
move from the vm events section to the node stats section.

Memcg accounting of these counters is preserved.  The relocated counters
remain visible in memory.stat alongside the existing aggregate pgscan and
pgsteal counters.

However, this change affects how the global counters are accumulated. 
Previously, the global event count update was gated on !cgroup_reclaim(),
excluding memcg-based reclaim from /proc/vmstat.  Now that
mod_lruvec_state() is being used to update the counters, the global
counters will include all reclaim.  This is consistent with how pgdemote
counters are already tracked.

Finally, the virtio_balloon driver is updated to use
global_node_page_state() to fetch the counters, as they are no longer
accessible through the vm_events array.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260219235846.161910-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:52:58 -07:00
Kees Cook
69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Bing Jiao
7ec9ecf217 mm/vmscan: select the closest preferred node in demote_folio_list()
The preferred demotion node (migration_target_control.nid) should be the
one closest to the source node to minimize migration latency.  Currently,
a discrepancy exists where demote_folio_list() randomly selects an allowed
node if the preferred node from next_demotion_node() is not set in
mems_effective.

To address it, update next_demotion_node() to select a preferred target
against allowed nodes; and to return the closest demotion target if all
preferred nodes are not in mems_effective via next_demotion_node().

It ensures that the preferred demotion target is consistently the closest
available node to the source node.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, per Shakeel]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-3-bingjiao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Bing Jiao <bingjiao@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-12 15:42:53 -08:00
Bing Jiao
1aceed565f mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion
Patch series "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion",
v9.

This patch series addresses two issues in demote_folio_list(),
can_demote(), and next_demotion_node() in reclaim/demotion.

1. demote_folio_list() and can_demote() do not correctly check
   demotion target against cpuset.mems_effective, which will cause (a)
   pages to be demoted to not-allowed nodes and (b) pages fail demotion
   even if the system still has allowed demotion nodes.

   Patch 1 fixes this bug by updating cpuset_node_allowed() and
   mem_cgroup_node_allowed() to return effective_mems, allowing directly
   logic-and operation against demotion targets.

2. next_demotion_node() returns a preferred demotion target, but it
   does not check the node against allowed nodes.

   Patch 2 ensures that next_demotion_node() filters against the allowed
   node mask and selects the closest demotion target to the source node.


This patch (of 2):

Fix two bugs in demote_folio_list() and can_demote() due to incorrect
demotion target checks against cpuset.mems_effective in reclaim/demotion.

Commit 7d709f49ba ("vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaim")
introduces the cpuset.mems_effective check and applies it to can_demote().
However:

  1. It does not apply this check in demote_folio_list(), which leads
     to situations where pages are demoted to nodes that are
     explicitly excluded from the task's cpuset.mems.

  2. It checks only the nodes in the immediate next demotion hierarchy
     and does not check all allowed demotion targets in can_demote().
     This can cause pages to never be demoted if the nodes in the next
     demotion hierarchy are not set in mems_effective.

These bugs break resource isolation provided by cpuset.mems.  This is
visible from userspace because pages can either fail to be demoted
entirely or are demoted to nodes that are not allowed in multi-tier memory
systems.

To address these bugs, update cpuset_node_allowed() and
mem_cgroup_node_allowed() to return effective_mems, allowing directly
logic-and operation against demotion targets.  Also update can_demote()
and demote_folio_list() accordingly.

Bug 1 reproduction:
  Assume a system with 4 nodes, where nodes 0-1 are top-tier and
  nodes 2-3 are far-tier memory. All nodes have equal capacity.

  Test script:
    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
    echo +cpuset > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo "0-2" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cpuset.mems
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
    swapoff -a
    # Expectation: Should respect node 0-2 limit.
    # Observation: Node 3 shows significant allocation (MemFree drops)
    stress-ng --oomable --vm 1 --vm-bytes 150% --mbind 0,1

Bug 2 reproduction:
  Assume a system with 6 nodes, where nodes 0-2 are top-tier,
  node 3 is a far-tier node, and nodes 4-5 are the farthest-tier nodes.
  All nodes have equal capacity.

  Test script:
    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
    echo +cpuset > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo "0-2,4-5" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cpuset.mems
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
    swapoff -a
    # Expectation: Pages are demoted to Nodes 4-5
    # Observation: No pages are demoted before oom.
    stress-ng --oomable --vm 1 --vm-bytes 150% --mbind 0,1,2

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-1-bingjiao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-2-bingjiao@google.com
Fixes: 7d709f49ba ("vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Bing Jiao <bingjiao@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-12 15:42:52 -08:00
Sahil Chandna
4a8eabc6e4 mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers
Use the %pe printk format specifier to report error pointers directly
instead of printing PTR_ERR() as a long value.  This improves clarity,
produces more readable error messages.

This instance was flagged by the Coccinelle script
(misc/ptr_err_to_pe.cocci) as an opportunity to adopt %pe.

Found by: make coccicheck MODE=report M=mm/
No functional change intended

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80a6643657a60e75ddf48b4869b3e7fdc101f855.1770230135.git.chandna.sahil@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.sahil@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-06 15:47:16 -08:00
Kairui Song
2732acda82 mm, swap: use swap cache as the swap in synchronize layer
Current swap in synchronization mostly uses the swap_map's SWAP_HAS_CACHE
bit.  Whoever sets the bit first does the actual work to swap in a folio.

This has been causing many issues as it's just a poor implementation of a
bit lock.  Raced users have no idea what is pinning a slot, so it has to
loop with a schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1), which is ugly and causes
long-tailing or other performance issues.  Besides, the abuse of
SWAP_HAS_CACHE has been causing many other troubles for synchronization or
maintenance.

This is the first step to remove this bit completely.

Now all swap in paths are using the swap cache, and both the swap cache
and swap map are protected by the cluster lock.  So we can just resolve
the swap synchronization with the swap cache layer directly using the
cluster lock and folio lock.  Whoever inserts a folio in the swap cache
first does the swap in work.  And because folios are locked during swap
operations, other raced swap operations will just wait on the folio lock.

The SWAP_HAS_CACHE will be removed in later commit.  For now, we still set
it for some remaining users.  But now we do the bit setting and swap cache
folio adding in the same critical section, after swap cache is ready.  No
one will have to spin on the SWAP_HAS_CACHE bit anymore.

This both simplifies the logic and should improve the performance,
eliminating issues like the one solved in commit 01626a1823 ("mm: avoid
unconditional one-tick sleep when swapcache_prepare fails"), or the
"skip_if_exists" from commit a65b0e7607 ("zswap: make shrinking
memcg-aware"), which will be removed very soon.

[kasong@tencent.com: fix cgroup v1 accounting issue]
 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMgjq7CGUnzOVG7uSaYjzw9wD7w2dSKOHprJfaEp4CcGLgE3iw@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251220-swap-table-p2-v5-12-8862a265a033@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31 14:22:56 -08:00
Jiayuan Chen
a45088376d mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset
Currently, kswapd_failures is reset in multiple places (kswapd, direct
reclaim, PCP freeing, memory-tiers), but there's no way to trace when and
why it was reset, making it difficult to debug memory reclaim issues.

This patch:

1. Introduce kswapd_clear_hopeless() as a wrapper function to
   centralize kswapd_failures reset logic.

2. Introduce kswapd_test_hopeless() to encapsulate hopeless node
   checks, replacing all open-coded kswapd_failures comparisons.

3. Add kswapd_clear_hopeless_reason enum to distinguish reset sources:
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_KSWAPD: reset from kswapd context
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_DIRECT: reset from direct reclaim
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_PCP: reset from PCP page freeing
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_OTHER: reset from other paths

4. Add tracepoints for better observability:
   - mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: traces each reset with reason
   - mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: traces each kswapd reclaim failure

Test results:

$ trace-cmd record -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail
$ # generate memory pressure
$ trace-cmd report
cpus=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.216563: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.217169: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.217764: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.218353: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.218993: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.219744: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.220488: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.221206: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.221806: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.222634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.223286: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.223894: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.224712: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.225424: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.226082: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.226810: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.386869: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=1
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.387435: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=2
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.388016: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=3
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.388586: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=4
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.389155: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=5
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.389723: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=6
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.390292: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=7
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.392364: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=8
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.392934: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=9
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.393504: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=10
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.394073: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=11
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.394899: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=12
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.395472: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=13
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.396055: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=14
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.396628: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=15
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.397199: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=16
kworker/u18:0-40    [002]    27.410151: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=DIRECT
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.439454: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.440048: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.440634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.441211: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.441787: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.442363: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.443030: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.443725: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.444315: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.444898: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.445476: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.446053: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.446646: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.447230: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.447812: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.448391: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16
 ann-423   [003]    28.028285: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=PCP

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120024402.387576-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>	[tracing]
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31 14:22:38 -08:00
Jiayuan Chen
dc9fe9b705 mm/vmscan: mitigate spurious kswapd_failures reset from direct reclaim
Patch series "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures
reset", v4.

Currently, kswapd_failures is reset in multiple places (kswapd,
direct reclaim, PCP freeing, memory-tiers), but there's no way to
trace when and why it was reset, making it difficult to debug
memory reclaim issues.

This patch:

1. Introduce kswapd_clear_hopeless() as a wrapper function to
   centralize kswapd_failures reset logic.

2. Introduce kswapd_test_hopeless() to encapsulate hopeless node
   checks, replacing all open-coded kswapd_failures comparisons.

3. Add kswapd_clear_hopeless_reason enum to distinguish reset sources:
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_KSWAPD: reset from kswapd context
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_DIRECT: reset from direct reclaim
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_PCP: reset from PCP page freeing
   - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_OTHER: reset from other paths

4. Add tracepoints for better observability:
   - mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: traces each reset with reason
   - mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: traces each kswapd reclaim failure

Test results:

$ trace-cmd record -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail
$ # generate memory pressure
$ trace-cmd report
cpus=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.216563: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.217169: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.217764: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.218353: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.218993: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.219744: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.220488: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.221206: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.221806: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.222634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.223286: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.223894: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.224712: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.225424: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.226082: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.226810: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.386869: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=1
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.387435: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=2
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.388016: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=3
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.388586: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=4
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.389155: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=5
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.389723: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=6
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.390292: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=7
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.392364: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=8
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.392934: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=9
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.393504: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=10
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.394073: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=11
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.394899: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=12
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.395472: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=13
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.396055: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=14
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.396628: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=15
 kswapd1-72    [002]    27.397199: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=16
kworker/u18:0-40    [002]    27.410151: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=DIRECT
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.439454: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.440048: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.440634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.441211: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.441787: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.442363: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.443030: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.443725: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.444315: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.444898: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.445476: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.446053: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.446646: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.447230: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.447812: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15
 kswapd0-71    [000]    27.448391: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16
 ann-423   [003]    28.028285: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=PCP


This patch (of 2):

When kswapd fails to reclaim memory, kswapd_failures is incremented.  Once
it reaches MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES, kswapd stops running to avoid futile
reclaim attempts.  However, any successful direct reclaim unconditionally
resets kswapd_failures to 0, which can cause problems.

We observed an issue in production on a multi-NUMA system where a process
allocated large amounts of anonymous pages on a single NUMA node, causing
its watermark to drop below high and evicting most file pages:

$ numastat -m
Per-node system memory usage (in MBs):
                          Node 0          Node 1           Total
                 --------------- --------------- ---------------
MemTotal               128222.19       127983.91       256206.11
MemFree                  1414.48         1432.80         2847.29
MemUsed                126807.71       126551.11       252358.82
SwapCached                  0.00            0.00            0.00
Active                  29017.91        25554.57        54572.48
Inactive                92749.06        95377.00       188126.06
Active(anon)            28998.96        23356.47        52355.43
Inactive(anon)          92685.27        87466.11       180151.39
Active(file)               18.95         2198.10         2217.05
Inactive(file)             63.79         7910.89         7974.68

With swap disabled, only file pages can be reclaimed.  When kswapd is
woken (e.g., via wake_all_kswapds()), it runs continuously but cannot
raise free memory above the high watermark since reclaimable file pages
are insufficient.  Normally, kswapd would eventually stop after
kswapd_failures reaches MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES.

However, containers on this machine have memory.high set in their cgroup. 
Business processes continuously trigger the high limit, causing frequent
direct reclaim that keeps resetting kswapd_failures to 0.  This prevents
kswapd from ever stopping.

The key insight is that direct reclaim triggered by cgroup memory.high
performs aggressive scanning to throttle the allocating process.  With
sufficiently aggressive scanning, even hot pages will eventually be
reclaimed, making direct reclaim "successful" at freeing some memory. 
However, this success does not mean the node has reached a balanced state
- the freed memory may still be insufficient to bring free pages above the
high watermark.  Unconditionally resetting kswapd_failures in this case
keeps kswapd alive indefinitely.

The result is that kswapd runs endlessly.  Unlike direct reclaim which
only reclaims from the allocating cgroup, kswapd scans the entire node's
memory.  This causes hot file pages from all workloads on the node to be
evicted, not just those from the cgroup triggering memory.high.  These
pages constantly refault, generating sustained heavy IO READ pressure
across the entire system.

Fix this by only resetting kswapd_failures when the node is actually
balanced.  This allows both kswapd and direct reclaim to clear
kswapd_failures upon successful reclaim, but only when the reclaim
actually resolves the memory pressure (i.e., the node becomes balanced).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120024402.387576-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120024402.387576-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31 14:22:38 -08:00
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
a3db9e136c mm/vmscan: drop inclusion of balloon_compaction.h
Before commit b1123ea6d3 ("mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page
feature"), the include was required because of isolated_balloon_page().

It's no longer required, so let's remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-20-david@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31 14:22:35 -08:00
Shakeel Butt
95296536eb memcg: rename mem_cgroup_ino() to mem_cgroup_id()
Rename mem_cgroup_ino() to mem_cgroup_id() and mem_cgroup_get_from_ino()
to mem_cgroup_get_from_id().  These functions now use cgroup IDs (from
cgroup_id()) rather than inode numbers, so the names should reflect that.

[shakeel.butt@linux.dev: replace ino with id, per SeongJae]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/flkqanhyettp5uq22bjwg37rtmnpeg3mghznsylxcxxgaafpl4@nov2x7tagma7
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251225232116.294540-9-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 20:02:25 -08:00
Shakeel Butt
20ccbd89af mm/vmscan: use cgroup ID instead of private memcg ID in lru_gen interface
The LRU gen debugfs interface was using the internal private memcg ID
which is meant for tracking kernel objects that outlive their cgroup. 
Switch to using the public cgroup ID instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251225232116.294540-7-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 20:02:25 -08:00
Kevin Lourenco
62451ae347 mm: fix minor spelling mistakes in comments
Correct several typos in comments across files in mm/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: also fix comment grammar, per SeongJae]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218150906.25042-1-klourencodev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Lourenco <klourencodev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:48 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
64dd89ae01 mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode
Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating
writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to
spin.

Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power
draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices.  Reclaim has
also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and
regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design.

The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore.  The footprint of the
feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm,
block, filesystems.  Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't
been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years.

Let's sunset it.  Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a
few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:47 -08:00
Chen Ridong
055059ed72 memcg: remove mem_cgroup_size()
The mem_cgroup_size helper is used only in apply_proportional_protection
to read the current memory usage.  Its semantics are unclear and
inconsistent with other sites, which directly call page_counter_read for
the same purpose.

Remove this helper and get its usage via mem_cgroup_protection for
clarity.  Additionally, rename the local variable 'cgroup_size' to 'usage'
to better reflect its meaning.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251211013019.2080004-3-chenridong@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:42 -08:00
Andrew Morton
7adc97bc93 mm/vmscan.c:shrink_folio_list(): save a tabstop
We have some needlessly deep indentation in this huge function due to

	if (expr1) {
		if (expr2) {
			...
		}
	}

Convert this to

	if (expr1 && expr2) {
		...
	}

Also, reflow that big block comment to fit in 80 cols.

Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:36 -08:00
Kevin Brodsky
0a096ab7a3 mm: introduce generic lazy_mmu helpers
The implementation of the lazy MMU mode is currently entirely
arch-specific; core code directly calls arch helpers:
arch_{enter,leave}_lazy_mmu_mode().

We are about to introduce support for nested lazy MMU sections.  As things
stand we'd have to duplicate that logic in every arch implementing
lazy_mmu - adding to a fair amount of logic already duplicated across
lazy_mmu implementations.

This patch therefore introduces a new generic layer that calls the
existing arch_* helpers. Two pair of calls are introduced:

* lazy_mmu_mode_enable() ... lazy_mmu_mode_disable()
    This is the standard case where the mode is enabled for a given
    block of code by surrounding it with enable() and disable()
    calls.

* lazy_mmu_mode_pause() ... lazy_mmu_mode_resume()
    This is for situations where the mode is temporarily disabled
    by first calling pause() and then resume() (e.g. to prevent any
    batching from occurring in a critical section).

The documentation in <linux/pgtable.h> will be updated in a subsequent
patch.

No functional change should be introduced at this stage.  The
implementation of enable()/resume() and disable()/pause() is currently
identical, but nesting support will change that.

Most of the call sites have been updated using the following Coccinelle
script:

@@
@@
{
...
- arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ lazy_mmu_mode_enable();
...
- arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ lazy_mmu_mode_disable();
...
}

@@
@@
{
...
- arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ lazy_mmu_mode_pause();
...
- arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ lazy_mmu_mode_resume();
...
}

A couple of notes regarding x86:

* Xen is currently the only case where explicit handling is required
  for lazy MMU when context-switching. This is purely an
  implementation detail and using the generic lazy_mmu_mode_*
  functions would cause trouble when nesting support is introduced,
  because the generic functions must be called from the current task.
  For that reason we still use arch_leave() and arch_enter() there.

* x86 calls arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() unconditionally in a few
  places, but only defines it if PARAVIRT_XXL is selected, and we
  are removing the fallback in <linux/pgtable.h>. Add a new fallback
  definition to <asm/pgtable.h> to keep things building.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-8-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:33 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
16aca2c98a mm: restore per-memcg proactive reclaim with !CONFIG_NUMA
Commit 2b7226af73 ("mm/memcg: make memory.reclaim interface generic")
moved proactive reclaim logic from memory.reclaim handler to a generic
user_proactive_reclaim() helper to be used for per-node proactive reclaim.

However, user_proactive_reclaim() was only defined under CONFIG_NUMA, with
a stub always returning 0 otherwise.  This broke memory.reclaim on
!CONFIG_NUMA configs, causing it to report success without actually
attempting reclaim.

Move the definition of user_proactive_reclaim() outside CONFIG_NUMA, and
instead define a stub for __node_reclaim() in the !CONFIG_NUMA case. 
__node_reclaim() is only called from user_proactive_reclaim() when a write
is made to sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim, which is only defined
with CONFIG_NUMA.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116205247.928004-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev
Fixes: 2b7226af73 ("mm/memcg: make memory.reclaim interface generic")
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 09:34:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2516a87153 Patch series in this pull request:
- The 2 patch series "powerpc/pseries/cmm: two smaller fixes" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a couple of minor things in ppc land.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Improve folio split related functions" from Zi Yan
   provides some cleanups and minorish fixes in the folio splitting code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "powerpc/pseries/cmm: two smaller fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
   fixes a couple of minor things in ppc land

 - "Improve folio split related functions" (Zi Yan)
   some cleanups and minorish fixes in the folio splitting code

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: avoid damos_test_commit stack warning
  mm: vmscan: correct nr_requested tracing in scan_folios
  MAINTAINERS: add idr core-api doc file to XARRAY
  mm/hugetlb: fix incorrect error return from hugetlb_reserve_pages()
  mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h
  mm/huge_memory: fix folio split stats counting
  mm/huge_memory: make min_order_for_split() always return an order
  mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation
  mm/huge_memory: change folio_split_supported() to folio_check_splittable()
  mm/sparse: fix sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early definition without CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
  powerpc/pseries/cmm: adjust BALLOON_MIGRATE when migrating pages
  powerpc/pseries/cmm: call balloon_devinfo_init() also without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
2025-12-13 20:35:41 +12:00
Chen Ridong
49d921b471 mm: vmscan: correct nr_requested tracing in scan_folios
When enabling vmscan tracing, it is observed that nr_requested is always
4096, which is confusing.

        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...
        mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: classzone=3 order=0 nr_requested=4096 ...

This is because it prints MAX_LRU_BATCH, which is meaningless as it's a
constant.  To fix this, modify it to print capped valued.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251204122355.1822919-1-chenridong@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8c2214fc9a ("mm: multi-gen LRU: reuse some legacy trace events")
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-09 11:25:34 -08:00
Zi Yan
5842bcbfc3 mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation
can_split_folio() is just a refcount comparison, making sure only the
split caller holds an extra pin.  Open code it with
folio_expected_ref_count() != folio_ref_count() - 1.  For the extra_pins
used by folio_ref_freeze(), add folio_cache_ref_count() to calculate it. 
Also replace folio_expected_ref_count() with folio_cache_ref_count() used
by folio_ref_unfreeze(), since they are returning the same values when a
folio is frozen and folio_cache_ref_count() does not have unnecessary
folio_mapcount() in its implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251126210618.1971206-3-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-09 11:25:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7203ca412f Significant patch series in this merge are as follows:
- The 10 patch series "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" from
   Uladzislau Rezki reworks the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking
   allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT).
 
 - The 2 patch series "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" from xu xin fixes
   a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited
   across fork/exec.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations"
   from SeongJae Park does some light maintenance work on the zswap code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles'
   and 'show_stacks_handles'" from Mauricio Faria de Oliveira enhances the
   /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature.  It adds unique identifiers
   to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring
   tools can better match stack traces over time.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" from Joshua
   Hahn makes some minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages
   feature.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing
   anon_vma lock" from Lokesh Gidra addresses a scalability issue in
   userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation.
 
 - The 2 patch series "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov performs some cleanup in the KASAN code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "drivers/base/node: fold node register and
   unregister functions" from Donet Tom cleans up the NUMA node handling
   code a little.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" from Kefeng
   Wang provides some cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA
   allocation hinting code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of
   free_pcppages_bulk" from Joshua Hahn addresses long lock hold times at
   boot on large machines.  These were causing (harmless) softlockup
   warnings.
 
 - The 2 patch series "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios
   during reclaim" from Baolin Wang removes some now-unnecessary work from
   page reclaim.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg
   per-node memory usage" from SeongJae Park enhances the DAMOS auto-tuning
   feature.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in
   DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan fixes DAMON_LRU_SORT
   and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration.
 
 - The 15 patch series "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more
   users" from Lorenzo Stoakes enhances the new(ish)
   file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and ports additional callsites
   from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare().
 
 - The 8 patch series "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space"
   from Lu Baolu fixes a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in
   the IOMMU code.  In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto
   a stale kernel pagetable entry.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()"
   from Wei Yang cleans up and optimizes the folio splitting code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" from Kairui
   Song implements some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" from SeongJae
   Park does as advertised.
 
 - The 9 patch series "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" from
   SeongJae Park permits userspace to remove a specific monitoring target
   in the middle of the current targets list.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h"
   from Harry Yoo implements a couple of cleanups related to mm header file
   inclusion.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default
   priority round robin" from Baoquan He improves the selection of swap
   devices for NUMA machines.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to
   enums" from Israel Batista changes the memory block labels from macros
   to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info.
 
 - The 3 patch series "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in
   break_ksm" from Pedro Demarchi Gomes addresses an inefficiency when KSM
   unmerges an address range.
 
 - The 22 patch series "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests"
   from SeongJae Park fixes leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON
   userspace unit tests.
 
 - The 2 patch series "some cleanups for pageout()" from Baolin Wang
   cleans up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
   writeback-for-eviction code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" from
   Hui Zhu moves hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file.
 
 - The 9 patch series "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes makes the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps
   and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA
   lock" from Lorenzo Stoakes reduces mmap lock contention for callers
   performing VMA guard region operations.
 
 - The 2 patch series "vma_start_write_killable" from Matthew Wilcox
   starts work in permitting applications to be killed when they are
   waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online
   parameters commit" from SeongJae Park adds additional userspace testing
   of DAMON's "commit" feature.
 
 - The 9 patch series "mm/damon: misc cleanups" from SeongJae Park does
   that.
 
 - The 2 patch series "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes addresses the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when
   that VMA is merged with another.
 
 - The 16 patch series "mm: support device-private THP" from Balbir Singh
   introduces support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
   device-private memory.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Optimize folio split in memory failure" from Zi
   Yan optimizes folio split operations in the memory failure code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate
   split support checks" from Wei Yang provides some more cleanups in the
   folio splitting code.
 
 - The 16 patch series "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap
   entries, introduce leaf entries" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleans up our
   handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of
   'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t.
 
 - The 4 patch series "reparent the THP split queue" from Muchun Song
   reparents the THP split queue to its parent memcg.  This is in
   preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
   wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources.
 
 - The 3 patch series "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant
   cleanup" from Wei Yang does a little cleanup in the hugepage collapse
   code.
 
 - The 6 patch series "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram writeback efficiency by introducing
   batched bio writeback support.
 
 - The 4 patch series "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" from
   Shakeel Butt cleans up our handling of the interrupt safety of some
   memcg stats.
 
 - The 4 patch series "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" from
   Vishal Moola cleans up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V"
   from Chunyan Zhang teches soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect
   tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" from
   Youngjun Park fixes a small bug and cleans up some of the swap code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes starts work on converting the vma struct's flags to a
   bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations"
   from Youngjun Park addresses a possible bug in the swap discard code and
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

  "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
     Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
     (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)

  "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
     Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
     inherited across fork/exec

  "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
     Some light maintenance work on the zswap code

  "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
     Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
     unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
     that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
     time

  "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
     Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature

  "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
     Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation

  "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)

  "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
     Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little

  "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
     Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
     code

  "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
     Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
     causing (harmless) softlockup warnings

  "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
     Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim

  "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
     Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature

  "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
     Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
     configuration

  "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
     additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()

  "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
     Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
     code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
     stale kernel pagetable entry

  "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
     Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code

  "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
     Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code

  "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)

  "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
     Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
     middle of the current targets list

  "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
     A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion

  "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
     improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines

  "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
     Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
     appear in kernel debug info

  "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
     Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range

  "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
     Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
     tests

  "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
     Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
     writeback-for-eviction code

  "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
     Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file

  "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
     improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs

  "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
     operations

  "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
     Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
     waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock

  "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
     Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)

  "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
     VMA is merged with another

  "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
     Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
     device-private memory

  "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)

  "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
     Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code

  "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
     concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t

  "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
     Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
     preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
     wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
     resources

  "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
     A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code

  "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
     Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
     writeback support

  "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
     Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats

  "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
     Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags

  "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
     Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
     RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension

  "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
     Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code

  "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
     stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit

  "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
     Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
     up a little

[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
  register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
  broken to me, I've asked for clarification   - Linus ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
  mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
  mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
  mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
  memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
  selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
  mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
  mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
  tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
  mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
  mm: declare VMA flags by bit
  zram: fix a spelling mistake
  mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
  mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
  pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
  mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
  mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
  mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
  mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
  ...
2025-12-05 13:52:43 -08:00
Jiayuan Chen
3cf41edc20 mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
We have a colocation cluster used for deploying both offline and online
services simultaneously.  In this environment, we encountered a
scenario where direct memory reclamation was triggered due to kswapd
not running.

1. When applications start up, rapidly consume memory, or experience
   network traffic bursts, the kernel reaches steal_suitable_fallback(),
   which sets watermark_boost and subsequently wakes kswapd.

2. In the core logic of kswapd thread (balance_pgdat()), when reclaim is
   triggered by watermark_boost, the maximum priority is 10. Higher
   priority values mean less aggressive LRU scanning, which can result in
   no pages being reclaimed during a single scan cycle:

   if (nr_boost_reclaim && sc.priority == DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
       raise_priority = false;

3. Additionally, many of our pods are configured with memory.low, which
   prevents memory reclamation in certain cgroups, further increasing the
   chance of failing to reclaim memory.

4. This eventually causes pgdat->kswapd_failures to continuously
   accumulate, exceeding MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES, and consequently kswapd
   stops working.  At this point, the system's available memory is still
   significantly above the high watermark -- it's inappropriate for kswapd
   to stop under these conditions.

The final observable issue is that a brief period of rapid memory
allocation causes kswapd to stop running, ultimately triggering direct
reclaim and making the applications unresponsive.

This problem leading to direct memory reclamation has been a
long-standing issue in our production environment.  We initially held
the simple assumption that it was caused by applications allocating
memory too rapidly for kswapd to keep up with reclamation.  However,
after we began monitoring kswapd's runtime behavior, we discovered a
different pattern:

kswapd initially exhibits very aggressive activity even when there is
still considerable free memory, but it subsequently stops running
entirely, even as memory levels approach the low watermark.

In summary, both boosted watermarks and memory.low increase the
probability of kswapd operation failures.

This patch specifically addresses the scenario involving boosted
watermarks by not incrementing kswapd_failures when reclamation fails. 
A more general solution, potentially addressing memory.low or other
cases, requires further discussion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/53de0b3ee0b822418e909db29bfa6513faff9d36@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024022711.382238-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-29 10:41:07 -08:00
Mateusz Guzik
4c6b40877b
fs: cosmetic fixes to lru handling
1. inode_bit_waitqueue() was somehow placed between __inode_add_lru() and
   inode_add_lru(). move it up
2. assert ->i_lock is held in __inode_add_lru instead of just claiming it is
   needed
3. s/__inode_add_lru/__inode_lru_list_add/ for consistency with itself
   (inode_lru_list_del()) and similar routines for sb and io list
   management
4. push list presence check into inode_lru_list_del(), just like sb and
   io list

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029131428.654761-2-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-25 10:34:49 +01:00
Shakeel Butt
5b3eb779a2 memcg: remove __mod_lruvec_state
__mod_lruvec_state() is already safe against irqs, so there is no need to
have a separate interface (i.e.  mod_lruvec_state) which wraps calls to it
with irq disabling and reenabling.  Let's rename __mod_lruvec_state() to
mod_lruvec_state().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24 15:08:54 -08:00
Baolin Wang
4f8961b295 mm: vmscan: simplify the folio refcount check in pageout()
Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout()
(they will be filtered out by the following check in pageout()), and only
tmpfs/shmem folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written back, we
can remove the redundant folio_test_private() when checking the folio's
refcount, as tmpfs/shmem and swapcache folios do not use the PG_private
flag.

While we're at it, we can open-code the folio refcount check instead of
adding a simple helper that has only one user.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4cbbec5bb92397aa4597105f1f499aabf7a1901c.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 13:43:56 -08:00
Baolin Wang
d94d9293a1 mm: vmscan: remove folio_test_private() check in pageout()
Patch series "some cleanups for pageout()", v2.

Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout(),
and only tmpfs/shmem folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written
back, we can remove the redundant folio_test_private() related logic to
simplify the logic of pageout(), as tmpfs/shmem and swapcache folios do
not use the PG_private flag.


This patch (of 2):

The folio_test_private() check in pageout() was introduced by commit
ce91b575332b ("orphaned pagecache memleak fix") in 2005 (checked from a
history tree[1]).  As the commit message mentioned, it was to address the
issue where reiserfs pagecache may be truncated while still pinned.  To
further explain, the truncation removes the page->mapping, but the page is
still listed in the VM queues because it still has buffers.

In 2008, commit a2b345642f ("Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3
data=journal") seems to be dealing with a similar issue, where the page
becomes dirty after truncation, and it provides a very useful call stack:

truncate_complete_page()
      cancel_dirty_page() // PG_dirty cleared, decr. dirty pages
      do_invalidatepage()
        ext3_invalidatepage()
          journal_invalidatepage()
            journal_unmap_buffer()
              __dispose_buffer()
                __journal_unfile_buffer()
                  __journal_temp_unlink_buffer()
                    mark_buffer_dirty(); // PG_dirty set, incr. dirty pages

In this commit a2b345642f, we forcefully clear the page's dirty flag
during truncation (in truncate_complete_page()).

Now it seems this was just a peculiar usage specific to reiserfs.  Maybe
reiserfs had some extra refcount on these pages, which caused them to pass
the is_page_cache_freeable() check.

With the fix provided by commit a2b345642f and reiserfs being removed
in 2024 by commit fb6f20ecb1 ("reiserfs: The last commit"), such a case
is unlikely to occur again.  So let's remove the redundant
folio_test_private() checks and related buffer_head release logic, and
just leave a warning here to catch such a bug.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: redo comment, per David]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/17d1b293-e393-4989-a357-7eea74b3c805@redhat.com
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: remove comment and WARNing, per Hugh and others]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/392a9ca3-31ac-4447-bd44-3c656d63e4ca@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ef0e560dc83650bc538eb5dcd1594e112c1369f.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1]
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 13:43:56 -08:00
Kairui Song
a983471cfc mm, swap: cleanup swap entry allocation parameter
We no longer need this GFP parameter after commit 8578e0c00d ("mm, swap:
use the swap table for the swap cache and switch API").  Before that
commit the GFP parameter is already almost identical for all callers, so
nothing changed by that commit.  Swap table just moved the GFP to lower
layer and make it more defined and changes depend on atomic or sleep
allocation.

Now this parameter is no longer used, just remove it.  No behavior change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024-swap-clean-after-swap-table-p1-v2-3-a709469052e7@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16 17:28:20 -08:00
Baolin Wang
2f05435df9 mm: vmscan: simplify the logic for activating dirty file folios
After commit 6b0dfabb35 ("fs: Remove aops->writepage"), we no longer
attempt to write back filesystem folios through reclaim.

However, in the shrink_folio_list() function, there still remains some
logic related to writeback control of dirty file folios.  The original
logic was that, for direct reclaim, or when folio_test_reclaim() is false,
or the PGDAT_DIRTY flag is not set, the dirty file folios would be
directly activated to avoid being scanned again; otherwise, it will try to
writeback the dirty file folios.  However, since we can no longer perform
writeback on dirty folios, the dirty file folios will still be activated.

Additionally, under the original logic, if we continue to try writeback
dirty file folios, we will also check the references flag,
sc->may_writepage, and may_enter_fs(), which may result in dirty file
folios being left in the inactive list.  This is unreasonable.  Even if
these dirty folios are scanned again, we still cannot clean them.

Therefore, the checks on these dirty file folios appear to be redundant
and can be removed.  Dirty file folios should be directly moved to the
active list to avoid being scanned again.  Since we set the PG_reclaim
flag for the dirty folios, once the writeback is completed, they will be
moved back to the tail of the inactive list to be retried for quick
reclaim.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba5c49955fd93c6850bcc19abf0e02e1573768aa.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16 17:28:06 -08:00
Baolin Wang
b34619af9c mm: vmscan: filter out the dirty file folios for node_reclaim()
Patch series "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during
reclaim", v2.

Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios during reclaim,
some logic for handling dirty file folios in the reclaim process also
needs to be updated.  Please check the details in each patch.  


This patch (of 2):

After commit 6b0dfabb35 ("fs: Remove aops->writepage"), we no longer
attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout(), and only tmpfs/shmem
folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written back.  Therefore, we
should also filter out the dirty filesystem folios for node_reclaim() to
avoid unnecessary LRU scans.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c91f5ecc5152b647904c7503618a01885d913928.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16 17:28:06 -08:00