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| author | Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net> | 2026-10-17 22:33:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-10-24 01:56:40 -0700 |
| commit | d4ea410ce4b8aa46a316476ea2624a357bf31fa9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a488054acad95f94effc5c2ba44c2b82d6c900b /tools/lib/python | |
| parent | d0a12d80d2f7e9f4ed2030b6f04c8a897956bf84 (diff) | |
mm/mempolicy: apply bind policies against the scoped allocation zone
QEMU fails to start a guest with a VFIO device when guest RAM comes
from a memory backend bound to a movable-only node:
vfio_container_dma_map(0x55b1b1317800, 0x0, 0x10000000,
0x7f39a2200000)
= -12 (Cannot allocate memory)
VFIO pins guest RAM when the device is realized, and the pin faults
the pages in. io_uring fixed buffers fail the same way. Faulting the
range in before pinning lets the same pin succeed, since resident
pages are migrated off the node instead.
A long-term pin faults under memalloc_pin_save(). PF_MEMALLOC_PIN makes
current_gfp_context() clear __GFP_MOVABLE, but policy_nodemask() tests
apply_policy_zone() against the caller's gfp.
The bind keeps its movable-only nodemask, and the allocation finds no
usable zone:
page allocation failure:
order:0,
mode:0x140dc2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP),
nodemask=1,cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1
Call Trace:
warn_alloc+0x136/0x150
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xed8/0x1720
alloc_pages_mpol+0xaa/0x170
vma_alloc_folio_noprof+0x65/0xd0
__handle_mm_fault+0x137b/0x1ac0
handle_mm_fault+0xa0/0x270
__get_user_pages+0x250/0xfd0
__gup_longterm_locked+0x116/0x870
gup_fast_fallback+0xcfc/0xdf0
pin_user_pages_fast+0x47/0x60
io_pin_pages+0x9a/0x110
Base page faults fail with -ENOMEM.
hugetlb faults fail with -EFAULT.
Check the policy zone against current_gfp_context(gfp), so a pin-scoped
fault falls back off the movable-only nodemask, like any other
non-movable allocation under the same bind.
Tested in qemu with a dax/kmem movable-only node 1. io_uring and VFIO
pins of unfaulted base pages and 2MB hugetlb pages now succeed and land
on node 0 (correct). QEMU now starts with the same backend binding.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261018023349.1697434-1-gourry@gourry.net
Fixes: 8e3560d963d2 ("mm: honor PF_MEMALLOC_PIN for all movable pages")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib/python')
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