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Linus Torvalds
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mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
Everything: Total patches: 171 Reviews/patch: 1.83 Reviewed rate: 82% Excluding selftests: Total patches: 149 Reviews/patch: 1.77 Reviewed rate: 80% Excluding selftests and maple_tree: Total patches: 129 Reviews/patch: 1.99 Reviewed rate: 89% Summary of patch series in this merge: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes): Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang): Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen): Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif): Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky): Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan): Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick): Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon): Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang): Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia): Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang): Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum): Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia): Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan): Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig): Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas): Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao): Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig): Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache): khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett): Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCao9nJQAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA jk/9AQDlfevYJuSJmzAI8bt8ISG+/TfXMtIZC/MdbHqtQVYWPQD8Cvm3DUZsdGB/ Gloq/HBFuMPgE8p2pwUIthdgnTPNvAc= =c+Nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen) Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif) Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan) Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick) Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang) Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia) Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang) Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia) Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig) Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas) Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao) Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig) Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache) khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett) Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits) selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable() maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation maple_tree: fix argument name in header maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests maple_tree: document erase and allocations better maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic() maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem() maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null() maple_tree: documentation fix maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers ... |
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Shakeel Butt
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memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it
When a memory cgroup is offlined its LRU folios are reparented to the parent. lruvec_reparent_lru() splices the child's lists into the parent's and credits the parent with the child's per-zone lru_zone_size[], but never clears the child's copy, so the size is copied rather than moved. lru_gen_reparent_memcg() does the same for MGLRU. The parent is left correct, credited with exactly the folios it took over. The stale value sits on the child and nothing will correct it: folio->memcg_data now resolves to the parent, so every later update_lru_size() for those folios goes there. Dying cgroups are not freed immediately and mem_cgroup_iter() still walks them, so shrink_lruvec() keeps being called on them. get_scan_count() reads the phantom counter through lruvec_lru_size() and the scan loop then grinds through nr[] in SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX steps against an empty list, for as long as the dead cgroup lives. Under MGLRU the MGLRU scanner runs instead, but count_shadow_nodes() sums all of NR_LRU_LISTS through lruvec_lru_size() and over-budgets the shadow node limit just the same. On one 251 GiB host a sweep of every mz->lru_zone_size[] found 380 counters describing folios on no list at all: 124777314 pages, 476 GiB, 1.89x the machine's RAM, across 57 cgroups. All were on memcgs with CSS_DYING set and CSS_ONLINE clear, and parent/child pairs reported byte-identical sizes. LRU_UNEVICTABLE needs its size moved too. Its list is deliberately not spliced because lruvec_init() poisons the head - the unevictable LRU is imaginary and folios are never threaded on it - but the size is kept by lruvec_add_folio()/lruvec_del_folio() and those folios account to the parent from here on. This depends on commit |
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Enlin Mu
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5d3fe91b70 |
mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat
In balance_pgdat(), when the low watermark is met, processes sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait are woken up because they are able to safely make forward progress. However, the comment incorrectly states "they should not be able", which contradicts the actual code behavior. Fix this typo to accurately reflect the logic. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260821064057.4081-1-enlin.mu@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Enlin Mu <enlin.mu@unisoc.com> Signed-off-by: Enlin Mu <enlin.mu@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> 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: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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f7e698e326 |
mm/mglru: fix and remove redundant unevictable folio handling
sort_folio() has a shortcut for moving folios that are no longer evictable
but are still sitting on a generation list. However, this shortcut is
buggy. It does not follow the PG_lru usage convention, and it has a more
serious issue.
Unevictable folios are not threaded on lists[LRU_UNEVICTABLE], so that
folio->lru can be reused to hold folio->mlock_count (see the comment in
lruvec_init()). Hence lruvec_add_folio() skips the list_add() for them,
and every other place that turns a folio unevictable initialises
mlock_count explicitly: lru_add() sets it to 0, __mlock_folio() and
__mlock_new_folio() set it to !!folio_test_mlocked(folio). sort_folio()
sets nothing, and the lru_gen_del_folio() right above it may have already
poisoned folio->lru via list_del(), so mlock_count ends up aliasing
LIST_POISON2, which reads as 0x122, i.e. 290. The result is user
visible. On munlock, __munlock_folio() decrements that bogus count, finds
it still non-zero and bails out before clearing PG_mlocked, so the folio
remains unevictable and the Mlocked accounting stays inflated until the
folio is freed.
The shortcut also touches the LRU flags in the wrong order. It calls
lru_gen_del_folio() while PG_lru is still set, so a concurrent
folio_test_clear_lru() (e.g. compaction, folio_isolate_lru()) can succeed
on a folio that has already been taken off the generation list, which may
lead to unexpected behavior.
So fix it by isolating them as common folios and letting the generic
shrink path cull them. This matches the classical LRU behavior, and there
should be no visible effect on the generic eviction or isolation behavior.
There is no performance concern either, such a folio goes through this
once, and then it is off the generation lists for good.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260812-mglru-mlock-fix-v2-1-a3fec5853c08@tencent.com
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Hui Zhu
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508537753b |
mm/mglru: fix young counter undercount for large folios
lru_gen_look_around() feeds its local 'young' counter into
suitable_to_scan(), which decides whether the current PMD is added to
the bloom filter and checked again on the next aging round.
The folio triggering the look-around is processed at function entry:
test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() clears the accessed bits of the nr PTEs
it maps, and the function bails out if none of them is young. The loop
that follows therefore never recounts this folio, since its accessed bits
are already cleared. Every other young folio the loop finds is accounted
as a batch (young += nr), where nr is the number of consecutive PTEs it
maps. The triggering folio, however, still contributes a fixed young = 1
regardless of its size -- a leftover from before PTE batching. A large
triggering folio is thus accounted inconsistently with the rest of the
window.
Initialize young to nr so the triggering folio is accounted the same way
as any other young folio batch in the loop.
Note this is a deliberate overestimate, not a measured value. The
test-and-clear helper only reports whether any of the nr PTEs is young,
not how many were accessed, so the true number of accessed PTEs in a large
folio is unknown and can be smaller than nr. Counting the full batch is
intentional: the mm core tracks accessed/dirty state per folio, not per
page, so a per-page count is neither obtainable nor meaningful. The only
consumer is suitable_to_scan(), and the bloom filter it feeds tolerates
error. Overestimating is also the safe direction: at worst a PMD that saw
little access is rescanned, whereas underestimating could skip rescanning
a PMD whose folios are still hot and reclaim them incorrectly. (nr here
is the PTE batch size, not necessarily folio_nr_pages().)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813061019.49806-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260812065933.103627-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev
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Christoph Hellwig
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52d85ca90c |
mm/swap: add a new swap_ops.h header to allow for pluggable swap ops
Add a new header to declare the swap_iocb, swap_ops and swap_ctx to allow for swap_ops implementations outside of mm/page_io.c. This will be used to remove the double indirection for file system-based swap. There is no functional change, just a move of the declarations. Note that there already is a swapops.h header, which is totally unrelated to struct swap_ops. The close naming is a bit unfortunate, but I could not think of a better name for this header. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723054622.3460249-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Christoph Hellwig
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0df74c1158 |
mm/swap: remove SWP_FS_OPS
Provide a swap_fs_activate helper that directly sets up swap_fs_ops, and a flag in struct swap_ops to indicate of NOFS swapping is allowed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713093350.2154226-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Christoph Hellwig
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8f29aa226f |
mm/swap: introduce struct swap_io_ctx
Generalize the context currently provided by double pointers to struct swap_iocb to an on-stack context. This cleans up the code and prepares for adding more fields and supporting batching multiple folios into a single bio for block-based swap as well. This new swap_io_ctx is required for all functions using it, the old way of allowing a NULL iocb for some callers is removed to keep the interface consistent. To reduce code duplication caused by this, a new swap_cache_read_folio_sync helper is added to consolidate the code to call swap_cache_read_folio with a local swap_io_ctx. The unpug helpers are renamed to use the submit wording as they are generalized. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713093350.2154226-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Usama Arif
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7b9f4e5f81 |
mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost
The anon/file scan balance in get_scan_count() is driven by two scalars in
struct lruvec, anon_cost and file_cost, accumulated by every reclaim
producer under lruvec->lru_lock. The acquisition sites for cost work
specifically are:
- shrink_inactive_list() re-takes lru_lock at function exit purely
to call lru_note_cost_unlock_irq() with (nr_pageout, nr_scanned -
nr_reclaimed). One acquisition per inactive shrink.
- shrink_active_list() does the same with (0, nr_rotated). One
acquisition per active shrink.
- workingset_refault() takes the lock via folio_lruvec_lock_irq()
purely to record the refault cost. One acquisition per refault.
- prepare_scan_control() takes lru_lock just to snapshot the two
scalars into sc->{anon,file}_cost.
- lru_note_cost_unlock_irq() itself walks parent_lruvec and
re-acquires lru_lock on each ancestor to propagate the update,
adding O(memcg-depth) acquisitions per producer call.
This hurts because lru_lock is already a heavy contention point on
memory-heavy workloads: every isolate_lru_folios(), move_folios_to_lru()
and folio_add_lru() takes it. The cost work itself is trivial (two scalar
bumps and one comparison), but it contends with and causes contention for
actual LRU manipulation. The parent_lruvec() walk also multiplies
cost-update overhead by memcg hierarchy depth.
The balance formula for anon and file, respectively, is this:
cost = nr_io * SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX + nr_rotated
Instead of recording cost and running averaging logic directly when these
events occur, snapshot running vmstat counters once per reclaim cycle and
derive the balance from event deltas since the last run.
Use PGROTATE_* from the preceding patch for the rotation input.
WORKINGSET_RESTORE_* and NR_VMSCAN_WRITE provide the remaining event
counters. Charge NR_VMSCAN_WRITE through lruvec stats so all inputs can
be sampled per lruvec and aggregated through the memcg hierarchy. This is
overall cheaper and has fewer lock acquisition sites.
Moving accumulation and decay to the reclaim side also improves the cost
model across reclaim gaps. With producer-side decay, events that happen
while reclaim is idle still age each other before reclaim ever samples the
costs. If a workload refaults a large anon set and then a smaller file
set before reclaim runs again, the later file activity can age the earlier
anon activity out of the cost model. The new scheme observes the whole
between-reclaim delta and decays anon and file proportionally, so the
scan-balance history better represents what happened since the last
reclaim pass.
A dedicated per-lruvec spinlock, cost_lock, serialises the delta
extraction, the cost->count update and the halving loop against concurrent
reclaimers in the same memcg+node.
NR_VMSCAN_WRITE is accounted at writeout(), so reclaim_stat.nr_pageout is
no longer needed and is removed.
memcg-v1's memory.stat anon_cost/file_cost is now sourced from
cost[].count instead of the removed lruvec anon_cost/file_cost fields.
The reported values only refresh when prepare_scan_control() runs and are
bounded at ~lrusize/4 by the halving loop; the scan-balance signal they
express is unchanged.
Under pure MGLRU the scan-balance signal itself is not consumed (both
prepare_scan_control() and get_scan_count() are short-circuited on the
MGLRU paths, and MGLRU's own type/tier selection comes from
read_ctrl_pos() on lrugen->{avg_refaulted,avg_total,refaulted,evicted},
not from anon_cost/file_cost). NR_VMSCAN_WRITE naturally covers writeout
from either reclaim implementation. The preceding patch also bumps
PGROTATE_{ANON,FILE} from evict_folios(), so rotation-driven reclaim work
is accounted consistently across both implementations.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727162550.2032-4-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@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: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Usama Arif
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1b089def0f |
mm/vmscan: add pgrotate_anon and pgrotate_file vmstat counters
Reclaim can spend substantial work on an LRU type without immediately
reclaiming or demoting a corresponding amount of memory. Record this work
in PGROTATE_ANON and PGROTATE_FILE.
For classic LRU reclaim:
- Inactive-list reclaim adds nr_scanned - nr_reclaimed to the
corresponding anon/file counter when isolation succeeds.
- Active-list reclaim adds referenced executable file folios that
are retained on the active list to PGROTATE_FILE. Active anon
reclaim does not contribute this component.
For MGLRU, add the number of initially isolated pages that remain
unreclaimed after both the initial and retry passes to the counter for the
selected anon/file type.
These counters are distinct from the existing pgrotated vm event.
pgrotated records an actual move to the inactive-list tail, primarily
after reclaim-marked writeback completes or failed invalidation leaves a
folio for accelerated reclaim. PGROTATE_ANON and PGROTATE_FILE measure
reclaim cost and do not imply that a folio moved to an LRU tail.
A subsequent patch will consume these counters for anon/file scan
balancing.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727162550.2032-3-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@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: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Ridong Chen
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8a90519585 |
mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter
sc_swappiness() had two separate definitions depending on CONFIG_MEMCG.
The !CONFIG_MEMCG variant simply returned vm_swappiness, ignoring the
proactive_swappiness value passed through scan_control. This caused the
swappiness parameter written to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim to
have no effect when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled.
Fix this by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single definition that
checks sc->proactive_swappiness first, then falls back to
mem_cgroup_swappiness() which already handles both CONFIG_MEMCG and
!CONFIG_MEMCG.
Before fix (swappiness=max ignored, mostly file pages reclaimed):
# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 1840
pgsteal_anon 25
pgsteal_file 1815
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 18013
pgsteal_anon 337
pgsteal_file 17676
After fix (swappiness=max honored, anon pages reclaimed as expected):
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgsteal_anon 0
pgsteal_file 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 16283
pgsteal_anon 16283
pgsteal_file 0
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723032434.2016749-3-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Fixes:
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Baolin Wang
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0ee06ee38a |
mm: mglru: promote mapped executable folios after first usage
Classical LRU protects mapped executable file folios through commit |
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Baolin Wang
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b64727d264 |
mm: vmscan: add a helper to identify file-backed executable folios
Add a helper to identify file-backed executable folios to avoid duplicate code. No functional changes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2ee74f9f98ac45a2f0db0ceb018e086bdb671d17.1784509721.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Baolin Wang
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3bf07ce805 |
mm: vmscan: convert folio_referenced() to use vma_flags_t
Patch series "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU", v4. Now MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios is less reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance (See patch 2 for more details). This patch (of 3): Replace use of the legacy vm_flags_t flags with vma_flags_t values for folio_referenced() and related logic. This is also a preparation for the following changes. No functional changes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1784509721.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2bd39e16ec19e3e3c4716aa9a1a25775c26cac57.1784509721.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Andrew Morton
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4b47e81e56 |
Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable to pick up
already-upstream changes to memcontrol.c, needed by "memcg: move mem_cgroup_swappiness and vm_swappiness to mm/swap.h". |
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Linus Torvalds
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8dbbc7e188 |
8 hotfixes. 5 are cc:stable. 5 are for MM.
All are singletons, please see their changelogs for details. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCaoaDnAAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA jqXxAP9MkqbVse1cHQ42HtupyA3XWCi+BbV//Yo9ofrqAxPugwD/WdhbdDlAbRYP sbRoAsWh92j6zL/E9i6jSMFizkzVpgY= =In+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-08-19-21-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull hotfixes from Andrew Morton: "8 hotfixes. 5 are cc:stable. 5 are for MM. All are singletons, please see their changelogs for details" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-08-19-21-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/pagewalk: fix stale walk->action escaping walk_pmd_range() mm, swap: don't free a hibernation slot that is in the swap cache mm: memcg-v1: fix memsw and TCP failcnt accounting mm/vmscan: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in shrink_lruvec() mailmap: add entries for Guodong Xu MAINTAINERS, mailmap: update email address for JP Kobryn MAINTAINERS: remove git URL for Squashfs memcg: keep folio's objcg same as its node |
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Linus Torvalds
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ed3b875bea |
mm.git review status for mm-hotfixes-stable..mm-stable
Everything:
Total patches: 501
Reviews/patch: 1.66
Reviewed rate: 70%
Excluding DAMON:
Total patches: 356
Reviews/patch: 2.26
Reviewed rate: 90%
Excluding DAMON and selftests:
Total patches: 329
Reviews/patch: 2.31
Reviewed rate: 92%
Excluding DAMON, selftests and maple_tree:
Total patches: 328
Reviews/patch: 2.31
Reviewed rate: 92%
Summary of patch series in this merge:
- The 2 patch series "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" from
Dev Jain implements some page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup.
- The 2 patch series "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for
kasan_flag_write_only" from Igor Putko provides some KASAN cleanup work.
- The 2 patch series "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups"
from Chi Zhiling provides a small speedup in the pagecaache read code.
- The 4 patch series "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim
recursion" from Kaitao Cheng improves a few things in the vmalloc code -
mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL allocations when the caller asked for
GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO.
- The 3 patch series "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task
stacks" from Breno Leitao avoids a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the
kmemleak scanning code in extreme situations.
- The 6 patch series "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" from Ye Liu is a
collection of unrelated cleanups to the page_owner code. For some
reason lots of people have been working on the page_owner code this
cycle.
- The 4 patch series "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate
find_vma()" from Kefeng Wang simplifies and accelerates the page walking
library function.
- The 3 patch series "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy
and offload" from Shivank Garg implements cleanups in the migration
code.
- The 4 patch series "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure
for print_mode and NUMA filtering" from Zhen Ni provides per-fd
filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast amount of
output it can produce.
- The 19 patch series "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage
allocation" from Muchun Song is a "set of fixes and preparatory cleanups
around bootmem HugeTLB handling, sparse initialization ordering, and
related vmemmap setup".
- The 4 patch series "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()"
from Wenchao Hao reduces lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates
the unmap path under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86
servers running zswap-heavy workloads. Up to 1.83x improvement in
microbenchmarking.
- The 2 patch series "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" from Suren
Baghdasaryan does that.
- The 6 patch series "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}()
failures" from SJ Park fixes improper handling of damon_start(),
damon_stop(), and damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to
prevent potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
bugs.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that
users can create/remove" from SJ Park resolves an issue where delayed
sysfs directory removal under CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE causes
creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding missing
kobject_del() calls before creating new directories.
- The 3 patch series "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" from
David Hildenbrand cleans up the core pte handling code.
- The 3 patch series "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" from
Kunwu Chan fixes several bugs in the DAMON selftests.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling"
from Cheng Nie fixes a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter
memcg_path setup, and adds a test case for it in sysfs.py.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" from
Ruslan Valiyev introduces selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs
feature by updating the test control module and verifying that scheme
stats update automatically without manual intervention.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: five misc fixups" from Akinobu Mita
contains miscellaneous DAMON fixups.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above
max_nr_regions/2" from Jiayuan Chen fixes DAMON's region splitting
behavior when region counts exceed half the maximum budget by
dynamically scaling down the split fraction as the limit approaches,
preventing large regions from staying un-split, and adds corresponding
KUnit test coverage.
- The 6 patch series "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap
entries" from Usama Arif refactors and cleans up PMD softleaf helpers,
call sites, and architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up
series that introduces PMD page table swap entries.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc,
tests, and code" from SJ Park updates DAMON design and ABI
documentation, expands unit and selftest coverage, optimizes
damon_commit_target_regions(), and cleans up recently added sysfs
interface code for better readability.
- The 2 patch series "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code
overhead on cgroup v2" from Usama Arif optimizes vmpressure() by
skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for userspace event notifications
and refactors v1-only eventfd handling into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce
memory overhead and code complexity.
- The 10 patch series "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap
error handling" from Hongfu Li refactors pkeys shared tracing and
assertion helpers into a common file, unifies protection key selftests
to use consistent diagnostic logging and assertions, and enforces
standardized MAP_FAILED return checks for mmap() calls across the tests.
- The 18 patch series "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" from SJ
Park replaces the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field
in damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function
(damon_nr_accesses_mvsum()), reducing structure memory overhead and
avoiding state corruption bugs.
- The 6 patch series "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic
use" from Ackerley Tng decouples HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA
dependencies by introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems
like guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
reservations or pseudo-VMAs.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits"
from SJ Park integrates DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the
pseudo moving sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring
without waiting for full aggregation intervals.
- The 18 patch series "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" from
Brendan Jackman simplifies and refactors the page allocator entry points
and flags by unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags
arguments, and eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.
- The 5 patch series "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" from
Dev Jain enforces the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of
ptep_get() for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in
arm64's huge_ptep_get() implementation.
- The 8 patch series "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core"
from SJ Park consolidates parameter validation into the DAMON core
specifically within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize
error checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
maintenance efficiency.
- The 3 patch series "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and
cleanup issues" from Yichong Chen renames is_need() to filter_record()
for clearer return semantics, fixes per-record allocation memory leaks
and bounds output copies in search_pattern() to address an existing
buffer issue.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" from
Jiayuan Chen mitigates a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is
removed while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous
reclaim.
- The 5 patch series "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for
unrecoverable pages" from Breno Leitao introduces an opt-in
vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl that immediately panics
the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in kernel-owned pages to
preserve error context and prevent delayed, silent data corruption.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}()
for simple error handling" from SJ Park refactors the DAMON core API
functions to guarantee that all contexts are fully stopped when
damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit() fail, eliminating the
need for complex and error-prone caller-side cleanup code.
- The 5 patch series "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio
split" from Zi Yan adds checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when
freeing compound or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages
during large folio splits. By validating these fields at free and split
time, it allows the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
prep_compound_tail().
- The 4 patch series "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio
reuse paths" from Barry Song eliminates redundant lru_add_drain() calls
in wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
contention and system overhead.
By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads.
- The 3 patch series "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" from
Jianyue Wu reorganizes folio LRU and swap code by relocating
page-cluster state to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c,
and moving MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.
- The 15 patch series "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest
memory" from Kiryl Shutsemau adds userfaultfd support for tracking the
working set of VM guest memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and
reclaim cold ones to tiered or remote storage.
- The 10 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part
2)" from David Hildenbrand removes the remaining pieces of
CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, performing some smaller cleanups around
freeing of reserved vmemmap pages on the way.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter
commits" from SJ Park ensures that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter
is properly updated when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime,
matching the behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and
renames existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
maintain measurement accuracy.
- The 3 patch series "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm"
from xu xin resolves a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck
where thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended
lock contention. By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap
walk, it reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms
down to under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes
under memory pressure.
- The 3 patch series "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h"
from Mike Rapoport splits declarations related to mm_init, memblock,
vmalloc and sparse into new headers.
- The 2 patch series "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()"
from xu xin applies the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm()
to collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
KSM memory error handling. It hoists loop-invariant address
initialization and restricts the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to
a targeted page offset range, reducing redundant checks and improving
lookup efficiency.
- The 3 patch series "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and
KSM tests" from Sayali Patil fixes issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM
selftest categories that can report failures when the prerequisites for
the tests are not satisfied.
- The 19 patch series "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only
monitoring" from SJ Park introduces attribute-weighted region management
in DAMON, allowing users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as
page sizes or cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.
By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely disable
access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on weighted
probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for attribute-focused
workloads.
- The 8 patch series "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for
userfaultfd-backed mappings" from Stanislav Kinsburskii extends
hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by allowing the
mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.
By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd regions
while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.
- The 33 patch series "mm: make VMA page offset handling more
consistent" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleans up and standardizes how
vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and manipulated across file-backed and
anonymous mappings in the kernel.
It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while renaming
rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their functionality.
These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that will
unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd folios.
- The 3 patch series "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks"
from Usama Arif addresses kernel panics and state corruption caused by
MM walk callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
created during HMM migrations.
It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock() properly
recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present THP or a
standard migration entry.
- The 5 patch series "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" from Dev Jain
refactors try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb, anonymous-lazyfree,
and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated functions, laying the
structural groundwork for batched anonymous large folio unmapping.
- The 4 patch series "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and
additions" from Song Hu fixes typos and fills in missing entries in the
DAMON sysfs ABI document.
- The 10 patch series "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs"
from Gregory Price introduces an atomic sysfs state attribute and
supporting DAX/MM infrastructure to prevent userland races when
offlining and removing entire memory regions.
By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
compatibility.
- The 13 patch series "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t"
from Lorenzo Stoakes continues transitioning the kernel from the
deprecated vm_flags_t type to vma_flags_t across core memory management
infrastructure.
It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
mlock, mprotect, and mremap.
- The 2 patch series "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" from
xu xin refactors mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify
duplicate slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds
code documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.
- The 10 patch series "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields"
from SJ Park cleans up DAMON core structures by consistently marking
internal-only fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper
direct access from outer layers.
It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
members.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL
de-ref and races" from SJ Park addresses potential infinite loops, NULL
dereferences, and race conditions identified in DAMON.
It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.
- The 2 patch series "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on
RT/UP" from Brendan Jackman fixes an NMI safety flaw in
__free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT
kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks via non-PCP or isolated
migration paths.
It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
hotplug or large allocation frees.
- The 4 patch series "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent
cleanups" from Brendan Jackman cleans up and updates page allocator
nomenclature, documentation, and debug assertions.
It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete VM_BUG_ON()
assertions in allocation paths.
- The 3 patch series "mm/mseal: further cleanups" from Lorenzo Stoakes
refactors and simplifies the mseal implementation by clarifying API
boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.
It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, eliminates
mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only to
current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
functional changes intended.
- The 4 patch series "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up
per-node proactive reclaim" from Ridong Chen resolves reclaim behavior
bugs and cleans up function parameters across memory reclaim paths.
It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead of
collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete gfp_mask
parameter from __node_reclaim().
- The 6 patch series "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" from Kefeng Wang
cleans up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it removes
the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP pages as
non-resident.
- The 2 patch series "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants"
from Kiryl Shutsemau implements two trivial cleanups in the folio split
API.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit
exec expectation bugs" from SJ Park resolves minor operational and
testing bugs in DAMON identified by Sashiko. It initializes the
damos->last_applied field to prevent occasional efficiency degradation
and fixes invalid memory accesses in DAMON KUnit tests during test
failure handling.
- The 3 patch series "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" from Jinjiang Tu
cleans up and refactors stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
without altering functionality.
It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.
- The 3 patch series "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" from Dev Jain
extends batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching capabilities
to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().
This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
flow and complexity.
- The 3 patch series "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up
early_ioremap_reset()" from Sang-Heon Jeon clarifies and cleans up the
architecture-specific usage of __late_set_fixmap() and
__late_clear_fixmap() after early_ioremap_reset().
It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset calls
in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.
- The 4 patch series "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" from
Johannes Weiner addresses severe performance regressions, swap storms,
and spurious OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure
in Meta production.
It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
than spinning unproductively.
- The 2 patch series "zram: lockmap tweaks" from Sebastian Siewior
optimizes and fixes lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
per-entry lockmaps and isolating lock classes across multiple instances.
It reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map instances
with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic lock_class_key
to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports when different zram
devices are backed by distinct filesystems.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain)
page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup
- "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only"
(Igor Putko)
KASAN cleanup work
- "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling)
Small speedup in the pagecaache read code
- "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng)
Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL
allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO
- "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno
Leitao)
Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code
in extreme situations
- "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu)
Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have
been working on the page_owner code this cycle.
- "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()"
(Kefeng Wang)
Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function
- "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload"
(Shivank Garg)
Cleanups in the migration code
- "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and
NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni)
Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast
amount of output it can produce
- "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song)
Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling,
sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup
- "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao)
Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path
under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers
running zswap-heavy workloads.
Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking.
- "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park)
Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and
damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent
potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
bugs
- "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can
create/remove" (SJ Park)
Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding
missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories
- "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand)
Clean up the core pte handling code
- "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan)
Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests
- "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie)
Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and
add a test case for it in sysfs.py.
- "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev)
Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating
the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update
automatically without manual intervention
- "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita)
Miscellaneous DAMON fixups.
- "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2"
(Jiayuan Chen)
Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half
the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as
the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split,
and add corresponding KUnit test coverage
- "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif)
Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and
architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that
introduces PMD page table swap entries
- "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ
Park)
Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest
coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up
recently added sysfs interface code for better readability
- "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2"
(Usama Arif)
Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for
userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling
into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity
- "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling"
(Hongfu Li)
Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common
file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic
logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return
checks for mmap() calls across the tests
- "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park)
Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in
damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing
structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs
- "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng)
Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by
introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like
guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
reservations or pseudo-VMAs
- "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park)
Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving
sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without
waiting for full aggregation intervals
- "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman)
Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by
unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and
eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.
- "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain)
Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get()
for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's
huge_ptep_get() implementation
- "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park)
Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically
within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error
checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
maintenance efficiency
- "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong
Chen)
Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix
per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in
search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue
- "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen)
Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed
while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim
- "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno
Leitao)
Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl
that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in
kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed,
silent data corruption
- "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error
handling" (SJ Park)
Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts
are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit()
fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side
cleanup code
- "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan)
Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound
or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio
splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows
the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
prep_compound_tail()
- "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry
Song)
Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in
wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
contention and system overhead
By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads
- "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu)
Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state
to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving
MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.
- "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest
memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to
tiered or remote storage
- "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David
Hildenbrand)
Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap
pages on the way.
- "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park)
Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated
when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the
behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames
existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
maintain measurement accuracy.
- "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin)
Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where
thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock
contention.
By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it
reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to
under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under
memory pressure.
- "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport)
Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse
into new headers
- "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin)
Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to
collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
KSM memory error handling.
It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range,
reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency.
- "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali
Patil)
Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can
report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not
satisfied
- "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park)
Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing
users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or
cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.
By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely
disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on
weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for
attribute-focused workloads.
- "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings"
(Stanislav Kinsburskii)
Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by
allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.
By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd
regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.
- "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and
manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel
It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while
renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their
functionality.
These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that
will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd
folios.
- "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif)
Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk
callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
created during HMM migrations
It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock()
properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present
THP or a standard migration entry.
- "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain)
Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb,
anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated
functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous
large folio unmapping.
- "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu)
Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI
document
- "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price)
Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM
infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing
entire memory regions
By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
compatibility.
- "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type
to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure.
It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
mlock, mprotect, and mremap.
- "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin)
Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate
slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code
documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.
- "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park)
Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only
fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access
from outer layers.
It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
members.
- "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races"
(SJ Park)
Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race
conditions identified in DAMON
It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.
- "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan
Jackman)
Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages
on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks
via non-PCP or isolated migration paths.
It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
hotplug or large allocation frees.
- "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan
Jackman)
Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and
debug assertions.
It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete
VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths.
- "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API
boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.
It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO,
eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only
to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
functional changes intended.
- "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive
reclaim" (Ridong Chen)
Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across
memory reclaim paths
It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead
of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete
gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim().
- "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang)
Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it
removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP
pages as non-resident.
- "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau)
Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API
- "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation
bugs" (SJ Park)
Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by
Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent
occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses
in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling.
- "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu)
Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
without altering functionality.
It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.
- "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain)
Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching
capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().
This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
flow and complexity.
- "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()"
(Sang-Heon Jeon)
Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of
__late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after
early_ioremap_reset()
It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset
calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.
- "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner)
Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious
OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta
production
It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
than spinning unproductively.
- "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior)
Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances
This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map
instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic
lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports
when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits)
selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check
selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown
mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn()
mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate()
Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering
ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true
mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE
mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
zram: use a custom key for each zram object
zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table
selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message
mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode
mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator
mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests
mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction
hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions
mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes
mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling
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Merge tag 'for-7.3/block-20260819' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe updates via Keith:
- Enable Clang context analysis for the nvme host driver, adding
context annotations across core, fabrics, rdma, tcp and pci
- nvmet reservation state exposed through a new namespace-level
debugfs directory, plus ABI documentation for the host sysfs and
target configfs interfaces
- nvme-tcp host memory disclosure fixes on the read path: reject a
read that transferred too few bytes, don't accept C2HData based
on blk_rq_payload_bytes() alone, and fix the R2T case for a read
command
- Parallelize nvme-rdma I/O queue allocation and startup (Surabhi)
- Apple nvme fixes and quirks: page aligned admin queue buffers,
destroy the admin queue on removal, and various DMA/NVMMU
correctness fixes
- A large pile of nvmet and host fixes for out-of-bounds reads,
refcount/resource leaks, and NULL derefs across auth, zns,
passthru, pci-epf, rdma and configfs
- Various other fixes and cleanups
- MD updates via Yu Kuai:
- llbitmap reshape support, the large series wiring exact bitmap
mapping and reshape lifecycle through raid5 and raid10, growing
the page cache in place, and remapping checkpointed bits as
reshape progresses
- raid5 fixes for lockless max_nr_stripes and recovery_offset
accesses, a reshape deadlock with more failed devices than max
degraded, and bitmap batch counter consistency
- Atomic write handling for raid1/raid10, and removal of the
REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
- raid5-ppl use-after-free fix in ppl_do_flush()
- A batch of smaller fixes across md core and the bitmap code
- s390/dasd ESE full-track write support and the surrounding
infrastructure, plus enabling CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for s390/block
- RWF_DONTCACHE support for block devices, built on new task-context
bio completion infrastructure, and wiring it up for the iomap and
buffer dropbehind writeback paths
- Async io_uring zone reset all, plus zone management command cleanups
allowing REQ_NOWAIT and tightening conventional zone rejection
- Block integrity refactoring: lift BIP_CHECK_FLAGS to the shared
header, handle nogenerate/noverify properly in fs-integrity, and drop
the blk-integrity.h include from bdev.c
- Split out a new blk_plug.h header
- ublk improvements: add UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE, split request validation
from io_desc init, reject non-power-of-2 zone sizes in SET_PARAMS,
and a series of hardening fixes around map/unmap and auto buf reg
- null_blk cleanups and configfs serialization fixes
- nbd queue freeze removal on the setup paths, and a new
pre_defined_connections module parameter for pre-created devices
- blk-cgroup fixes for the race between policy activation and blkg
destruction, and accounting per-cpu stats over possible CPUs across
blk-stat, iolatency, iocost and kyber
- Various dio fixes: leak on metadata mapping error, validate user
space vectors during extraction, and set dma_alignment from the
backing file for loop and zloop direct I/O
- bio cleanups
- Various other fixes and cleanups all over
* tag 'for-7.3/block-20260819' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (241 commits)
nbd: add pre_defined_connections module parameter for pre-created devices
nbd: remove queue freeze for newly created nbd from netlink path
nbd: factor out a nbd_genl_foreach_sock
nbd: skip queue freeze when setting size at device startup
nbd: remove queue freeze in nbd_add_socket
nbd: clear queue limits on disconnect
nbd: disallow NBD_SET_SOCK on an active device
nbd: simplify find_fallback() by removing redundant logic
blk-mq: add missing call to srcu_barrier() in blk_mq_free_tag_set()
block: mtip32xx: synchronize ioctls with device removal
ublk: avoid teardown retry loop on xarray allocation failure
null_blk: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds when zone_size is 0 or overflows
block: don't include blk-integrity.h in bdev.c
xfs: avoid double deferrals for RWF_DONTCACHE writes
loop: Fix recently introduced lock inversion
block: set QUEUE_FLAG_DYING unconditionally in blk_mark_disk_dead()
swim3: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION
selftests: ublk: add SET_PARAMS validation test
selftests: ublk: add helper for SET_PARAMS
ublk: reject non-power-of-2 zone sizes in SET_PARAMS
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Breno Leitao
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25f52e8121 |
mm/vmscan: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in shrink_lruvec()
I am seeing some rcu_tasks stalls in the Meta fleet during reclaim. INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks: 0000000088620d09: .. nvcsw: 6735/6735 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/8 task:GlobalCPUThread state:R running task pid:2552016 tgid:2524552 Call Trace: shrink_lruvec mem_cgroup_iter shrink_node do_try_to_free_pages try_to_free_pages __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof alloc_pages_noprof pte_alloc_one __pte_alloc handle_mm_fault Nothing promises direct reclaim returns in bounded time, and the scan loop in shrink_lruvec() only calls cond_resched(), which is a no-op on PREEMPTION kernels. Involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent state, so the reclaiming task never reports one and becomes a holdout. Upgrade it to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), which reports a quiescent state even when cond_resched() does nothing. PS: This has been discussed in [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260810-rcu_task_shrink_lruvec-v1-1-4d9f7d5251cb@debian.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/amdWVTs0WKOxguxP@gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> 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> |
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Ridong Chen
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430e4cdcc6 |
mm/mglru: fix anon-only reclaim evicting file pages when swappiness=max
The previous patch fixed this issue for the traditional LRU. The same
problem exists in MGLRU [1]: when swappiness=max (SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY) is
set, reclaim is expected to evict anonymous pages exclusively, but file
pages can still be reclaimed when anonymous pages cannot be reclaimed
(e.g. no swap and no demotion target).
Fix it the same way as the traditional LRU: keep returning
SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY in get_swappiness(), and return 0 from
get_nr_to_scan() when SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY is set but anon pages cannot be
reclaimed. Since get_nr_to_scan() decides how much MGLRU scans, returning
0 skips the scan entirely and avoids the useless scan work when there is
nothing eligible to reclaim.
The test result:
Before fix:
# cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
0x0007
# cat memory.stat
anon 204800
file 67108864
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
# cat memory.stat
anon 208896
file 0
...
pgsteal_proactive 16384
pgscan_proactive 16384
After fix:
# cat memory.stat
anon 188416
file 67215360
kernel 1970176
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
-bash: echo: write error: Resource temporarily unavailable
# cat memory.stat
anon 204800
file 67215360
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724033435.2573323-5-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260717113300.214717-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev [1]
Fixes:
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Ridong Chen
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b33f6e98b3 |
mm: vmscan: drop unused gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim()
Commit
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Ridong Chen
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b27caeb46c |
mm: vmscan: propagate real error code from per-node proactive reclaim
It has been observed that per-node proactive reclaim always returns
-EAGAIN when any error occurs. As discussed in the mailing list [1], the
interface should distinguish between cases where no reclaimable memory is
left and where another entity is concurrently using the same interface.
Propagate the real error code, consistent with how memcg proactive reclaim
handles errors.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724033435.2573323-3-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250717235604.2atyx2aobwowpge3@offworld/T/#m3514718be82a31b05726a49da9b61fbfc69a589e [1]
Fixes:
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Ridong Chen
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e26f7a91de |
mm/vmscan: fix anon-only reclaim evicting file pages when swappiness=max
Patch series "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node
proactive reclaim", v4.
Fixes and one cleanup.
Patch 1 fixes "swappiness=max": the anon-only test in get_scan_count() sat
after the "cannot reclaim anon" check, so when no anon was reclaimable the
request fell back to SCAN_FILE and evicted page cache instead.
Patch 2 fixes reclaim_store() collapsing every error into -EAGAIN, so
callers can no longer tell an invalid argument from a busy interface;
propagate the real error code, matching the memcg path.
Patch 3 drops the now-unused gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim().
Patch 4 fixes the same "swappiness=max" issue for MGLRU.
This patch (of 4):
As Qi mentioned [1], when swappiness=max (SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY) is set,
the reclaim logic is expected to reclaim anonymous pages exclusively.
However, due to the current ordering of checks in get_scan_count(), file
pages may still be evicted if can_reclaim_anon_pages() returns false,
which contradicts the semantics of SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY.
Reproducer in a cgroup holding 64M of file cache, with no swap configured:
Before (file cache is wrongly evicted):
# cat memory.stat
anon 196608
file 67178496
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
# cat memory.stat
anon 208896
file 4096 <- page cache evicted
pgsteal_proactive 16400
pgscan_proactive 16400
After (file cache is left intact):
# cat memory.stat
anon 200704
file 67178496
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
-bash: echo: write error: Resource temporarily unavailable
# cat memory.stat
anon 208896
file 67178496 <- page cache untouched
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
Fix this by bailing out early when SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY is set and no
anonymous pages are reclaimable, before falling back to file reclaim.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724033435.2573323-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724033435.2573323-2-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/7ddf3eee-5fe2-45f7-8614-c8936a039e04@linux.dev/ [1]
Fixes:
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Petr Tesarik
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ff3d40545f |
mm: let node_reclaim() return the number of pages reclaimed
There is only one caller, get_page_from_freelist(), and it does not make any use of the reason for skipping the reclaim, nor does it make any distinction between a full and partially successful reclaim. Therefore, node_reclaim() can simply return the number of pages that have been reclaimed, same as __node_reclaim(), and the NODE_RECLAIM_xxx macros can be removed. There is one small change of behavior when __node_reclaim() was attempted but returned zero. The allocation now skips the zone immediately; before this patch, the zone watermarks were checked first. I believe it was an oversight rather than intention, because the chances that zone watermark is OK after __node_reclaim() did not reclaim any pages are very close to zero. Originally, I was looking for occurences of NODE_RECLAIM_SOME and NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS, but I couldn't find any. That's because they are typecast from the result of a relational operator. This seemed a bit fragile, so I dug a bit deeper and came up with this proposed cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260714132300.2136018-1-ptesarik@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Jianyue Wu
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2253208bec |
mm/swap: colocate page-cluster sysctl with swap readahead
Patch series "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations", v9.
This series splits folio LRU and swap cleanup into three steps:
- move the page-cluster sysctl next to swap readahead in
mm/swap_state.c
- rename mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c after the swap-specific code
moves out
- move MM-internal reclaim declarations out of include/linux/swap.h
After this series, swap cache and swap-in readahead stay in
mm/swap_state.c. Folio LRU helpers live in mm/folio.c, and MM-internal
reclaim/workingset declarations move from include/linux/swap.h to
mm/internal.h (public LRU helpers used outside mm/ remain in swap.h).
The first patch handles the swap-specific page-cluster state before the
file rename, so the rename commit only carries folio LRU code. The last
patch keeps the LRU helpers used outside mm/ in include/linux/swap.h and
moves the internal reclaim/workingset declarations to mm/internal.h.
This patch (of 3):
page_cluster and the vm.page-cluster sysctl are only used by swap-in
readahead in swap_state.c. Move them out of swap.c together with
swap_readahead_setup(), and make page_cluster static to that file.
Rename swap_setup() while moving it as well. The helper is internal to MM
and now only sets up swap readahead defaults and its sysctl hook, so the
more specific name matches its reduced scope.
Call swap_readahead_setup() from swap_init() after moving it, keeping the
readahead defaults and sysctl registration with swap_state.c
initialization.
swap_setup() previously lived in mm/swap.c, which is built
unconditionally, so the vm.page-cluster sysctl was registered also on
CONFIG_SWAP=n kernels. After moving the setup into swap_state.c, which is
built only when CONFIG_SWAP is enabled, vm.page-cluster is no longer
registered there. The knob only tunes swap-in readahead and had no effect
without swap.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708-ch-swap-series-plus-folio-lru-cleanup-v9-0-2bc72b4f8730@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708-ch-swap-series-plus-folio-lru-cleanup-v9-1-2bc72b4f8730@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jianyue Wu <wujianyue000@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Jiayuan Chen
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757dd8193f |
memcg: bail out proactive reclaim when memcg is dying
Proactive reclaim via memory.reclaim can run for a long time - swap I/O or thrashing again dominating the latency - and delays cgroup removal in the same way. Mitigate this by stopping the reclaim once memcg_is_dying(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-4-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com> Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> 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> |
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Andrew Morton
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330f108fd3 |
Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable in order to pick up
vmscan.c changes which are required by "memcg: bail out proactive reclaim when memcg is dying". |
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Christoph Hellwig
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758b86f7bc |
block: split out a new blk_plug.h header
blkdev.h gets included in various places outside the block layer just for struct blk_plug and related plugging functions. Split blk_plug into a separate helper to reduce the amount of code that needs to get rebuilt when blkdev.h changes and to slightly reduce compile times. In io_uring this requires pulling in a few other headers explicitly that previously were implicitly included through blkdev.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804125524.740996-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Brendan Jackman
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d0850de699 |
mm: split out internal page_alloc.h
internal.h is a bit bloated, seems like time for a page_alloc.h. Where it wasn't obvious, the heuristic for deciding what goes into this new header was "does it support/correspond to a definition in mm/page_alloc.c?" Only need to include it from ~20 .c files out of ~150 so this does seem like a genuine reduction in scopes, which is nice. And there's no circular internal.h<->page_alloc.h dependency, so it seems worthwhile to split this up before that inevitably emerges! Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703-alloc-trylock-v5-4-c87b714e19d3@google.com Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Suggested-by: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/41e92bab-6882-401a-8de9-154adbdcfb36@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Baolin Wang
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afa433c327 |
mm: vmscan: remove the redundant FOLIOREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN logic
folio_check_references() will return FOLIOREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN for referenced
file folios, indicating that we can proceed to reclaim clean file folios
or keep them if they are dirty file folios. However, after commit
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Gregory Price
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baff6d2d27 |
mm: constify oom_control, scan_control, and alloc_context nodemask
The nodemasks in these structures may come from a variety of sources, including tasks and cpusets - and should never be modified by any code when being passed around inside another context. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260609002919.3967782-1-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Richard Chang
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dc37771a43 |
mm: vmscan: abort proactive reclaim early when freezing for suspend
Proactive reclaim (triggered via memory.reclaim or node sysfs) checks for pending signals in its outer loop in user_proactive_reclaim(). However, the inner reclaim loops—specifically scanning cgroups in shrink_many() and evicting/aging folios in try_to_shrink_lruvec()—can run for a long time before returning to the outer loop, especially on systems with many cgroups or large memory sizes. During system suspend, the PM freezer attempts to freeze all tasks by sending fake signals (setting TIF_SIGPENDING). Because the inner loops do not check for pending signals, the proactive reclaim task can remain stuck in kernel space for seconds, failing to enter the refrigerator in a timely manner. This leads to suspend failures due to freeze timeouts, a behavior observed on Android devices. This latency issue is specific to proactive reclaim because of its large, user-defined reclaim targets (could be gigabytes). Since commit |
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Qi Zheng
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de4660898b |
mm: mglru: fix stale batch updates after memcg reparenting
The mglru page table walker batches per-generation size deltas in
walk->nr_pages while walking page tables without holding the lruvec lock.
The reset_batch_size() later folds those deltas into walk->lruvec under
the lruvec lock.
The page table walker can run concurrently with the memcg reparenting path
as follows:
CPU0 CPU1
==== ====
walk_mm
--> walk_page_range
--> update_batch_size
--> walk->nr_pages += delta
mem_cgroup_css_offline
--> memcg_reparent_objcgs
--> lock lruvec
lru_gen_reparent_memcg
--> reparent child folios to parent
unlock lruvec
lock lruvec
reset_batch_size
--> child lrugen->nr_pages += delta
This will trigger the following warning in lru_gen_exit_memcg():
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(memchr_inv(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages, 0,
sizeof(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages)));
And the user-visible impact of underestimated nr_pages in MGLRU was
premature OOMs because MGLRU does not try to reclaim memory when nr_pages
reaches zero, but there are still more pages.
To fix it, make reset_batch_size() check CSS_DYING under RCU before
flushing the pending batch. A non-dying memcg keeps the original lruvec
stable against RCU-delayed offlining; a dying memcg redirects the deltas
to the first non-dying ancestor.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710154318.75388-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev
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Linus Torvalds
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a1a8bab741 |
mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
Everything: Total patches: 118 Reviews/patch: 1.57 Reviewed rate: 62% Excluding DAMON: Total patches: 117 Reviews/patch: 1.58 Reviewed rate: 63% Excluding DAMON and selftests: Total patches: 42 Reviews/patch: 3.14 Reviewed rate: 92% Patch series in this merge: - The 14 patch series "khugepaged: add mTHP collapse support" from Nico Pache provides khugepaged with the capability to collapse anonymous memory regions to mTHPs. - The 14 patch series "Remove CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS and enable file THP for writable files" from Zi Yan ends up removing the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in file_thp_enabled(), so that khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE can run on FSes with PMD THP pagecache support even without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS enabled. - The 55 patch series "make MM selftests more CI friendly" from Mike Rapoport provides general fixes and cleanups to the MM selftests. It also moves more MM selftests uder the kselftest framework, making them more amenable to ongoing CI testing. - The 13 patch series "selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements" from Sayali Patil fixes several issues in MM selftests which were revealed by powerpc 64k pagesize. - The 3 patch series "selftests/mm: assorted fixes for hmm-tests" from Sayali Patil fixes more 64k pagesize issues in the MM selftests. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCajqsgwAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA jlNoAP0bM125zRNpqy13hUYfofQQg8lC9k7cfEHqVtvD/dpaKgD/Xbjd8AUGbwjs qoj3nNmUOfGFPubPZsU6YSFyVsYfzwM= =T44n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "khugepaged: add mTHP collapse support" (Nico Pache) Provide khugepaged with the capability to collapse anonymous memory regions to mTHPs - "Remove CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS and enable file THP for writable files" (Zi Yan) Remove the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in file_thp_enabled(), so that khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE can run on filesystems with PMD THP pagecache support even without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS enabled - "make MM selftests more CI friendly" (Mike Rapoport) General fixes and cleanups to the MM selftests. Also move more MM selftests under the kselftest framework, making them more amenable to ongoing CI testing - "selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements" and "selftests/mm: assorted fixes for hmm-tests" (Sayali Patil) Fix several issues in MM selftests which were revealed by powerpc 64k pagesize * tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (118 commits) Revert "mm: limit filemap_fault readahead to VMA boundaries" mm/vmscan: pass NULL to trace vmscan node reclaim mm: use mapping_mapped to simplify the code selftests/mm: fix exclusive_cow test fork() handling selftests/mm: remove hardcoded THP sizing assumptions in hmm tests selftests/mm: allow PUD-level entries in compound testcase of hmm tests mm/gup_test: reject wrapped user ranges mm/page_frag: reject invalid CPUs in page_frag_test mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids mm: page_isolation: avoid unsafe folio reads while scanning compound pages mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show() selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test mm: merge writeout into pageout MAINTAINERS: add Hao Ge as reviewer for codetag and alloc_tag selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed in hugetlb-mremap selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugetlb-mremap ... |
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Ben Dooks
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44238b122a |
mm/vmscan: pass NULL to trace vmscan node reclaim
The tracepoint for node relcaims takes a `struct mem_cgroup *` as the third argument, so pass NULL instead of 0 to fix warning about using an integer as a pointer. Fixes the following warnings: mm/vmscan.c:6753:66: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/vmscan.c:6757:58: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/vmscan.c:7818:60: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260616095906.210016-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Christoph Hellwig
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6f64c06f43 |
mm: merge writeout into pageout
writeout is only called from pageout, and a straight flow at the end, so merge the two functions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601113449.3464734-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linus Torvalds
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a552c81ff4 |
mm.git review status for mm-hotfixes-stable..mm-stable
Everything:
Total patches: 321
Reviews/patch: 1.52
Reviewed rate: 68%
Excluding DAMON:
Total patches: 227
Reviews/patch: 2.07
Reviewed rate: 90%
Excluding DAMON and selftests:
Total patches: 203
Reviews/patch: 2.14
Reviewed rate: 91%
Patchsets in this merge:
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity"
from Li Wang removes some noise from the MM selftests build out.
- The 3 patch series "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently"
from Ryan Roberts speeds up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by
first scanning them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to
vfree() and to the releasing of frozen pages.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota
charge ratio" from SeongJae Park addresses a DAMOS usability issue: The
DAMOS quota often exhausts prematurely because it charges for all memory
attempted, causing slow and inconsistent performance when actions fail
on unreclaimable memory.
To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing
- The 8 patch series "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness
and support large page sizes" from Li Wang fixes various spurious
failures and improves the overall robustness of the cgroup zswap
selftests.
- The 3 patch series "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" from
Anthony Yznaga fixes an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32.
- The 2 patch series "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with
shared" from Breno Leitao does some maintenance work in the huge_memory
code.
- The 3 patch series "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" from Brendan
Jackman uses the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and
initialization" from Muchun Song fixes several bugs in the vmemmap
optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap
initialization in the DAX and memory hotplug paths. It also fixes
pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for
ZONE_DEVICE compound pages.
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in
damon/next tree" from is a sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for
DAMON.
- The 3 patch series "mm: remove page_mapped()" from David Hildenbrand
remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped().
- The 10 patch series "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" from
SeongJae Park permits DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its
current state.
- The 3 patch series "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and
page-tables" from Muhammad Usama Anjum simplifies and speeds up kasan by
removing its ineffective tagging of stacks and page tables.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams
by default" from SeongJae Park simplifies deployment on diverse hardware
like NUMA systems by updating DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to
automatically monitor the physical address range covering all System RAM
areas by default, replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only
targeted the single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as
deprecated" from SeongJae Park updates some DAMON docs.
- The 8 patch series "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" from Dmitry
Ilvokhin switches zone->lock handling over to using the guard()
mechanisms.
- The 2 patch series "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" from
fujunjie fixes a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page
cache hits during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
random or strided memory access workloads.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in
test_percpu_basic" from Li Wang fixes a couple of false-positives in the
cgroup kmem selftests.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals
auto-tuning" from SeongJae Park adds a new parameter to DAMON permitting
DAMON_RECLAIM to automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation
intervals.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" from
SeongJae Park chnges DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond.
- The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" from
Breno Leitao removes large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the
verbose-mode kmemleak output.
- The 8 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)"
from David Hildenbrand reduces our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
with a view to removing it entirely in a later series.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of
2" from Liew Rui Yan prevents users from passing a non-power-of-2 value
of `addr_unit', as this later results in undesirable behavior.
- The 2 patch series "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" from
Frederick Mayle does as claimed.
- The 3 patch series "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" from Ye Liu
fixes three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c.
- The 4 patch series "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" from
Brendan Jackman implements several cleanups in the page allocator and
related code.
- The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation"
from Kairui Song unifies the allocation and charging of anon and shmem
swap in folios, provides better synchronization, consolidates the
metadata management, hence dropping the static array and map, and
improves performance.
- The 28 patch series "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring"
from SeongJae Park extends DAMON for monitoring general data attributes
other than accesses.
- The 5 patch series "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc()
shrink" from Shivam Kalra implements the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and
free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" from
niecheng does as advertised.
- The 3 patch series "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" from
Lorenzo Stoakes eliminates custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the
problematic success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access
uninitialized VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code
field and updates the memory char driver accordingly.
- The 14 patch series "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability
and tests" from SeongJae Park implements minor improvements in code
readability and tests for DAMON.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota
goals doc" from Maksym Shcherba does those things.
- The 2 patch series "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into
mm/userfaultfd.c" from Mike Rapoport performs that code movement.
- The 15 patch series "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio"
from Kairui Song and others cleans up and slightly improves MGLRU's
reclaim loop and dirty writeback handling. Large performance
improvements are measured.
- The 3 patch series "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps}
reads" from Suren Baghdasaryan uses per-vma locks when reading
/proc/pid/smaps and /proc/pid/numa_maps similar to reduce contention on
central mmap_lock.
- The 2 patch series "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and
thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()" from Ran Xiaokai provides some cleanup
work in the THP code.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" from
Konstantin Khorenko fixes a few build glitches in the memfd selftest
code.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple
objcgs" from Shakeel Butt resolves a 68% performance regression caused
by NUMA-node cache thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking
its existing fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches
up to five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of
the same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.
- The 2 patch series "zram: writeback fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
addresses a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues.
- The 9 patch series "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" from Johannes
Weiner resolves NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite
interaction by refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely
replace the complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent
Huge Pages (THPs).
- The 2 patch series "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory"
from Usama Arif improves large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page
arm64 by preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
maximum folio order under the cache cap.
- The 6 patch series "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" from
Kiryl Shutsemau fixes a bunch of minor issues in the
userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which were flagged by Sashiko review of
proposed new material.
- The 5 patch series "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic
vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()" from Muchun Song provides
generic versions of these two functions so the four arch-specific
implementations can be removed.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in
uswsusp by pinning swap device" from Youngjun Park addresses a
uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device reference
taking/releasing frequency.
- The 2 patch series "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" from Dev Jain does
as claimed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang)
Remove some noise from the MM selftests build
- "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts)
Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning
them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and
to the releasing of frozen pages
- "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio"
(SeongJae Park)
Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts
prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow
and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable
memory.
To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing
- "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large
page sizes" (Li Wang)
Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of
the cgroup zswap selftests
- "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga)
Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32
- "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao)
Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code
- "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman)
Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places
- "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun
Song)
Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect
page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory
hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and
struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages
- "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree"
A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON
- "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand)
Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped()
- "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park)
Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state
- "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad
Usama Anjum)
Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of
stacks and page tables
- "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default"
(SeongJae Park)
Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating
DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the
physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default,
replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the
single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead
- "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae
Park)
Update some DAMON docs
- "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin)
Switch zone->lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms
- "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie)
Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits
during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
random or strided memory access workloads
- "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic"
(Li Wang)
Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests
- "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning"
(SeongJae Park)
Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to
automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals
- "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park)
Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond
- "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao)
Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode
kmemleak output
- "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David
Hildenbrand)
Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to
removing it entirely in a later series
- "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan)
Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as
this later results in undesirable behavior
- "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle)
- "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu)
Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c
- "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman)
Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code
- "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song)
Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios,
provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata
management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves
performance
- "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park(
Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses
- "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra)
Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when
shrinking across a page boundary
- "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng)
- "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic
success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized
VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and
updates the memory char driver accordingly
- "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests"
(SeongJae Park)
- "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym
Shcherba)
- "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike
Rapoport)
- "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and
others)
Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty
writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured
- "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren
Baghdasaryan)
Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar
to reduce contention on central mmap_lock
- "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()"
(Ran Xiaokai)
Some cleanup work in the THP code
- "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko)
Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code.
- "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel
Butt)
Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache
thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing
fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to
five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the
same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.
- "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues
- "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner)
Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by
refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the
complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages
- "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif)
Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by
preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
maximum folio order under the cache cap.
- "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau)
Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which
were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material
- "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and
vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song)
Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four
arch-specific implementations can be removed.
- "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap
device" (Youngjun Park)
Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device
reference taking/releasing frequency.
- "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain)
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM
mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free
mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device
mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start
vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()
sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()
rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline
userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks
userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()
mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade
fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole()
fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race
...
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JP Kobryn
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32a2b73ec2 |
mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
compact_gap() returns 2 << order, which is used as watermark headroom in __compaction_suitable() and as a threshold in kswapd reclaim decisions. The computed value scales exponentially by order. For order-9 THP allocations this evaluates to 1024 pages, but the compaction free scanner's working set is bounded by COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX (32 pages). The scanner stops isolating free pages once it matches the migration batch. The current gap over-reserves by 32x. On fragmented production hosts, kswapd will try to reclaim up to the gap, but it only reaches that threshold in 18% of attempts. As a result, reclaim continues in the majority of cases despite many lower-order free pages being available. The over-sized gap also causes 46% of order-9 compaction suitability checks to fail unnecessarily: the zone has sufficient free pages for the scanner to operate, but not enough to clear the inflated threshold. Cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX so the watermark headroom reflects the scanner's actual capacity. This function is used by two key heuristics. The first is when kswapd can stop high-order reclaim and downgrade to order-0 balancing, allowing kcompactd to be woken for the original higher allocation order. The second is zone suitability checking, where the smaller gap allows compaction to start sooner. Note that orders 0-4 are unaffected since their gap is already less than or equal to COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX. A/B test on v6.13-based instagram production hosts (64GB, 60s measurement): Unpatched (43 hosts) pgscan_kswapd (mean/host): ~1.6M reclaim efficiency (steal/scan): 83.8% per-compaction success (success/stall): 2.1% THP success (alloc/alloc+fallback): 4.9% forced lru_add_drain (mean/host): ~107K Patched (59 hosts) pgscan_kswapd (mean/host): ~449K reclaim efficiency (steal/scan): 91.0% per-compaction success (success/stall): 28.3% THP success (alloc/alloc+fallback): 17.2% forced lru_add_drain (mean/host): ~64K Additional tests were also performed using a workload of similar shape and based on mm-new at the time of testing. Across three 60s runs, the patch showed improvements consistent with the previous test: reduced kswapd reclaim and fewer THP fault fallbacks. Unpatched kswapd_shrink_node downgrade to order-0 (mean): 0 thp_fault_fallback (mean): 1217 pgscan_kswapd (mean): 6328 pgsteal_kswapd (mean): 5657 Patched kswapd_shrink_node downgrade to order-0 (mean): 28 thp_fault_fallback (mean): 738 pgscan_kswapd (mean): 3773 pgsteal_kswapd (mean): 3243 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260604061725.13800-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn (Meta) <jp.kobryn@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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39376b9cac |
mm/vmscan: unify writeback reclaim statistic and throttling
Currently MGLRU and non-MGLRU handle the reclaim statistic and writeback
handling very differently, especially throttling. Basically MGLRU just
ignored the throttling part.
Let's just unify this part, use a helper to deduplicate the code so both
setups will share the same behavior.
Test using following reproducer using bash:
echo "Setup a slow device using dm delay"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/backing bs=1M count=2048
LOOP=$(losetup --show -f /var/tmp/backing)
mkfs.ext4 -q $LOOP
echo "0 $(blockdev --getsz $LOOP) delay $LOOP 0 0 $LOOP 0 1000" | \
dmsetup create slow_dev
mkdir -p /mnt/slow && mount /dev/mapper/slow_dev /mnt/slow
echo "Start writeback pressure"
sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test_wb
echo 128M > /sys/fs/cgroup/test_wb/memory.max
(echo $BASHPID > /sys/fs/cgroup/test_wb/cgroup.procs && \
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/slow/testfile bs=1M count=192)
echo "Clean up"
echo "0 $(blockdev --getsz $LOOP) error" | dmsetup load slow_dev
dmsetup resume slow_dev
umount -l /mnt/slow && sync
dmsetup remove slow_dev
Before this commit, `dd` will get OOM killed immediately if MGLRU is
enabled. Classic LRU is fine.
After this commit, throttling is now effective and no more spin on LRU or
premature OOM. Stress test on other workloads also looks good.
Global throttling is not here yet, we will fix that separately later.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-15-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Suggested-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>
Tested-by: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Kairui Song
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183ff2f9ec |
mm/vmscan: remove sc->unqueued_dirty
No one is using it now, just remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-14-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Suggested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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e621a24e10 |
mm/vmscan: remove sc->file_taken
No one is using it now, just remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-13-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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32d87083ee |
mm/mglru: remove no longer used reclaim argument for folio protection
Now dirty reclaim folios are handled after isolation, not before, since dirty reactivation must take the folio off LRU first, and that helps to unify the dirty handling logic. So this argument is no longer needed. Just remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-12-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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f37d3708b6 |
mm/mglru: simplify and improve dirty writeback handling
Right now the flusher wakeup mechanism for MGLRU is less responsive and unlikely to trigger compared to classical LRU. The classical LRU wakes the flusher if one batch of folios passed to shrink_folio_list is unevictable due to under writeback. MGLRU instead check and handle this after the whole reclaim loop is done. We previously even saw OOM problems due to passive flusher, which were fixed but still not perfect [1]. We have just unified the dirty folio counting and activation routine, now just move the dirty flush into the loop right after shrink_folio_list. This improves the performance a lot for workloads involving heavy writeback and prepares for throttling too. Test with YCSB workloadb showed a major performance improvement: Before this series: Throughput(ops/sec): 62485.02962831822 AverageLatency(us): 500.9746963330107 pgpgin 159347462 workingset_refault_file 34522071 After this commit: Throughput(ops/sec): 80857.08510208207 AverageLatency(us): 386.653262968934 pgpgin 112233121 workingset_refault_file 19516246 The performance is a lot better with significantly lower refault. We also observed similar or higher performance gain for other real-world workloads. We were concerned that the dirty flush could cause more wear for SSD: that should not be the problem here, since the wakeup condition is when the dirty folios have been pushed to the tail of LRU, which indicates that memory pressure is so high that writeback is blocking the workload already. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-11-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241026115714.1437435-1-jingxiangzeng.cas@gmail.com/ [1] Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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75d4c3f5fb |
mm/mglru: use the common routine for dirty/writeback reactivation
Currently MGLRU will move the dirty writeback folios to the second oldest gen instead of reactivate them like the classical LRU. This might help to reduce the LRU contention as it skipped the isolation. But as a result we will see these folios at the LRU tail more frequently leading to inefficient reclaim. Besides, the dirty / writeback check after isolation in shrink_folio_list is more accurate and covers more cases. So instead, just drop the special handling for dirty writeback, use the common routine and re-activate it like the classical LRU. This should in theory improve the scan efficiency. These folios will be rotated back to LRU tail once writeback is done so there is no risk of hotness inversion. And now each reclaim loop will have a higher success rate. This also prepares for unifying the writeback and throttling mechanism with classical LRU, we keep these folios far from tail so detecting the tail batch will have a similar pattern with classical LRU. The micro optimization that avoids LRU contention by skipping the isolation is gone, which should be fine. Compared to IO and writeback cost, the isolation overhead is trivial. And using the common routine also keeps the folio's referenced bits (tier bits), which could improve metrics in the long term. Also no more need to clean reclaim bit as the common routine will make use of it. Note the common routine updates a few throttling and writeback counters, which are not used, and never have been for the MGLRU case. We will start making use of these in later commits. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-10-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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acd22fbb9f |
mm/mglru: remove redundant swap constrained check upon isolation
Remove the swap-constrained early reject check upon isolation. This check is a micro optimization when swap IO is not allowed, so folios are rejected early. But it is redundant and overly broad since shrink_folio_list() already handles all these cases with proper granularity. Notably, this check wrongly rejected lazyfree folios, and it doesn't cover all rejection cases. shrink_folio_list() uses may_enter_fs(), which distinguishes non-SWP_FS_OPS devices from filesystem-backed swap and does all the checks after folio is locked, so flags like swap cache are stable. This check also covers dirty file folios, which are not a problem now since sort_folio() already bumps dirty file folios to the next generation, but causes trouble for unifying dirty folio writeback handling. And there should be no performance impact from removing it. We may have lost a micro optimization, but unblocked lazyfree reclaim for NOIO contexts, which is not a common case in the first place. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-9-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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12316f7902 |
mm/mglru: don't abort scan immediately right after aging
Right now, if eviction triggers aging, the reclaimer will abort. This is not the optimal strategy for several reasons. Aborting the reclaim early wastes a reclaim cycle when under pressure, and for concurrent reclaim, if the LRU is under aging, all concurrent reclaimers might fail. And if the age has just finished, new cold folios exposed by the aging are not reclaimed until the next reclaim iteration. What's more, the current aging trigger is quite lenient, having 3 gens with a reclaim priority lower than default will trigger aging, and blocks reclaiming from one memcg. This wastes reclaim retry cycles easily. And in the worst case, if the reclaim is making slower progress and all following attempts fail due to being blocked by aging, it triggers unexpected early OOM. And if a lruvec requires aging, it doesn't mean it's hot. Instead, the lruvec could be idle for quite a while, and hence it might contain lots of cold folios to be reclaimed. While it's helpful to rotate memcg LRU after aging for global reclaim, as global reclaim fairness is coupled with the rotation in shrink_many, memcg fairness is instead handled by cgroup iteration in shrink_node_memcgs. So, for memcg level pressure, this abort is not the key part for keeping the fairness. And in most cases, there is no need to age, and fairness must be achieved by upper-level reclaim control. So instead, just keep the scanning going unless one whole batch of folios failed to be isolated or enough folios have been scanned, which is triggered by evict_folios returning 0. And only abort for global reclaim after one batch, so when there are fewer memcgs, progress is still made, and the fairness mechanism described above still works fine. And in most cases, the one more batch attempt for global reclaim might just be enough to satisfy what the reclaimer needs, hence improving global reclaim performance by reducing reclaim retry cycles. Rotation is still there after the reclaim is done, which still follows the comment in mmzone.h. And fairness still looking good. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-8-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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6e9be217a3 |
mm/mglru: use a smaller batch for reclaim
With a fixed number to reclaim calculated at the beginning, making each following step smaller should reduce the lock contention and avoid over-aggressive reclaim of folios, as it will abort earlier when the number of folios to be reclaimed is reached. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-7-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Barry Song (Xiaomi)
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16b475d2ac |
mm/mglru: avoid reclaim type fall back when isolation makes no progress
While isolation makes no progress in scan_folios(), we quickly fall back to the other type in isolate_folios(). This is incorrect, as the current type may still have sufficient folios. Falling back can undermine the positive_ctrl_err() result from get_type_to_scan(), which is derived from swappiness. So just continue scanning this type for another round. Worth noting if the cold generations are all reclaimed, scan will no longer make any progress either, which may undermine the swappiness again. This is not a new issue and hence better be fixed later [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAGsJ_4zjdOYEtuO6gNjABm7NDxW0skzBFNRNee-k2D6VwsYEQA@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-6-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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3a72e078b4 |
mm/mglru: scan and count the exact number of folios
Make the scan helpers return the exact number of folios being scanned or isolated. Since the reclaim loop now has a natural scan budget that controls the scan progress, returning the scan number and consuming the budget makes the scan more accurate and easier to follow. The number of scanned folios for each iteration is always larger than 0, unless the reclaim must stop for a forced aging, so there is no more need for any special handling when there is no progress made: - `return isolated || !remaining ? scanned : 0` in scan_folios: both the function and the call now just return the exact scan count, combined with the scan budget introduced in the previous commit to avoid livelock or under scan. - `scanned += try_to_inc_min_seq` in evict_folios: adding a bool as a scan count was kind of confusing and no longer needed, as scan number should never be zero as long as there are still evictable gens. We may encounter a empty old gen that returns 0 scan count, to avoid that, do a try_to_inc_min_seq before toisolation which have slight to none overhead in most cases. - `evictable_min_seq + MIN_NR_GENS > max_seq` guard in evict_folios: the per-type get_nr_gens == MIN_NR_GENS check in scan_folios naturally returns 0 when only two gens remain and breaks the loop. Also change try_to_inc_min_seq to return void, as its return value is no longer used by any caller. Call it before isolate_folios to flush any empty gens left by external folio freeing, and again after isolate_folios when scanning moved or protected folios may have emptied the oldest gen. The scan still stops if only two gens are left, as the scan number will be zero. This matches the previous behavior. This forced gen protection may be removed or softened later to improve reclaim further. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-5-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kairui Song
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163bc3d68c |
mm/mglru: restructure the reclaim loop
The current loop will calculate the scan number on each iteration. The number of folios to scan is based on the LRU length, with some unclear behaviors, e.g, the scan number is only shifted by reclaim priority when aging is not needed or when at the default priority, and it couples the number calculation with aging and rotation. Adjust, simplify it, and decouple aging and rotation. Just calculate the scan number for once at the beginning of the reclaim, always respect the reclaim priority, and make the aging and rotation more explicit. This slightly changes how aging and offline memcg reclaim works: Previously, aging was skipped at DEF_PRIORITY even when eviction was no longer possible, so the reclaimer wasted an iteration until the priority escalated. Now aging runs immediately whenever it is needed to make progress; the DEF_PRIORITY skip only applies when eviction is still viable. This may avoid wasted iterations that over-reclaim slab and break reclaim balance in multi-cgroup setups. Similar for offline memcg. Previously, offline memcg wouldn't be aged unless it didn't have any evictable folios. Now, we might age it if it has only 3 generations, which should be fine. On one hand, offline memcg might still hold long-term folios, and in fact, a long-existing offline memcg must be pinned by some long-term folios like shmem. These folios might be used by other memcg, so aging them as ordinary memcg seems correct. Besides, aging enables further reclaim of an offlined memcg, which will certainly happen if we keep shrinking it. And offline memcg might soon be no longer an issue with reparenting. Overall, the memcg LRU rotation, as described in mmzone.h, remains the same. Note that because the scan budget is now pinned at loop entry, tiny lruvec might skip this reclaim pass, also skipping aging, which could be beneficial as aging is not helpful since it will still be un-reclaimable after aging. Reclaim will go on as usual once priority escalates. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-4-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |