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5 daysMerge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...
11 daysmm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boostedJiayuan Chen
We have a colocation cluster used for deploying both offline and online services simultaneously. In this environment, we encountered a scenario where direct memory reclamation was triggered due to kswapd not running. 1. When applications start up, rapidly consume memory, or experience network traffic bursts, the kernel reaches steal_suitable_fallback(), which sets watermark_boost and subsequently wakes kswapd. 2. In the core logic of kswapd thread (balance_pgdat()), when reclaim is triggered by watermark_boost, the maximum priority is 10. Higher priority values mean less aggressive LRU scanning, which can result in no pages being reclaimed during a single scan cycle: if (nr_boost_reclaim && sc.priority == DEF_PRIORITY - 2) raise_priority = false; 3. Additionally, many of our pods are configured with memory.low, which prevents memory reclamation in certain cgroups, further increasing the chance of failing to reclaim memory. 4. This eventually causes pgdat->kswapd_failures to continuously accumulate, exceeding MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES, and consequently kswapd stops working. At this point, the system's available memory is still significantly above the high watermark -- it's inappropriate for kswapd to stop under these conditions. The final observable issue is that a brief period of rapid memory allocation causes kswapd to stop running, ultimately triggering direct reclaim and making the applications unresponsive. This problem leading to direct memory reclamation has been a long-standing issue in our production environment. We initially held the simple assumption that it was caused by applications allocating memory too rapidly for kswapd to keep up with reclamation. However, after we began monitoring kswapd's runtime behavior, we discovered a different pattern: kswapd initially exhibits very aggressive activity even when there is still considerable free memory, but it subsequently stops running entirely, even as memory levels approach the low watermark. In summary, both boosted watermarks and memory.low increase the probability of kswapd operation failures. This patch specifically addresses the scenario involving boosted watermarks by not incrementing kswapd_failures when reclamation fails. A more general solution, potentially addressing memory.low or other cases, requires further discussion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/53de0b3ee0b822418e909db29bfa6513faff9d36@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024022711.382238-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-25fs: cosmetic fixes to lru handlingMateusz Guzik
1. inode_bit_waitqueue() was somehow placed between __inode_add_lru() and inode_add_lru(). move it up 2. assert ->i_lock is held in __inode_add_lru instead of just claiming it is needed 3. s/__inode_add_lru/__inode_lru_list_add/ for consistency with itself (inode_lru_list_del()) and similar routines for sb and io list management 4. push list presence check into inode_lru_list_del(), just like sb and io list Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029131428.654761-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-24memcg: remove __mod_lruvec_stateShakeel Butt
__mod_lruvec_state() is already safe against irqs, so there is no need to have a separate interface (i.e. mod_lruvec_state) which wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename __mod_lruvec_state() to mod_lruvec_state(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20mm: vmscan: simplify the folio refcount check in pageout()Baolin Wang
Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout() (they will be filtered out by the following check in pageout()), and only tmpfs/shmem folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written back, we can remove the redundant folio_test_private() when checking the folio's refcount, as tmpfs/shmem and swapcache folios do not use the PG_private flag. While we're at it, we can open-code the folio refcount check instead of adding a simple helper that has only one user. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4cbbec5bb92397aa4597105f1f499aabf7a1901c.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20mm: vmscan: remove folio_test_private() check in pageout()Baolin Wang
Patch series "some cleanups for pageout()", v2. Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout(), and only tmpfs/shmem folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written back, we can remove the redundant folio_test_private() related logic to simplify the logic of pageout(), as tmpfs/shmem and swapcache folios do not use the PG_private flag. This patch (of 2): The folio_test_private() check in pageout() was introduced by commit ce91b575332b ("orphaned pagecache memleak fix") in 2005 (checked from a history tree[1]). As the commit message mentioned, it was to address the issue where reiserfs pagecache may be truncated while still pinned. To further explain, the truncation removes the page->mapping, but the page is still listed in the VM queues because it still has buffers. In 2008, commit a2b345642f530 ("Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal") seems to be dealing with a similar issue, where the page becomes dirty after truncation, and it provides a very useful call stack: truncate_complete_page() cancel_dirty_page() // PG_dirty cleared, decr. dirty pages do_invalidatepage() ext3_invalidatepage() journal_invalidatepage() journal_unmap_buffer() __dispose_buffer() __journal_unfile_buffer() __journal_temp_unlink_buffer() mark_buffer_dirty(); // PG_dirty set, incr. dirty pages In this commit a2b345642f530, we forcefully clear the page's dirty flag during truncation (in truncate_complete_page()). Now it seems this was just a peculiar usage specific to reiserfs. Maybe reiserfs had some extra refcount on these pages, which caused them to pass the is_page_cache_freeable() check. With the fix provided by commit a2b345642f530 and reiserfs being removed in 2024 by commit fb6f20ecb121 ("reiserfs: The last commit"), such a case is unlikely to occur again. So let's remove the redundant folio_test_private() checks and related buffer_head release logic, and just leave a warning here to catch such a bug. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: redo comment, per David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/17d1b293-e393-4989-a357-7eea74b3c805@redhat.com [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: remove comment and WARNing, per Hugh and others] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/392a9ca3-31ac-4447-bd44-3c656d63e4ca@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ef0e560dc83650bc538eb5dcd1594e112c1369f.1758166683.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1] Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm, swap: cleanup swap entry allocation parameterKairui Song
We no longer need this GFP parameter after commit 8578e0c00dcf ("mm, swap: use the swap table for the swap cache and switch API"). Before that commit the GFP parameter is already almost identical for all callers, so nothing changed by that commit. Swap table just moved the GFP to lower layer and make it more defined and changes depend on atomic or sleep allocation. Now this parameter is no longer used, just remove it. No behavior change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024-swap-clean-after-swap-table-p1-v2-3-a709469052e7@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm: vmscan: simplify the logic for activating dirty file foliosBaolin Wang
After commit 6b0dfabb3555 ("fs: Remove aops->writepage"), we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios through reclaim. However, in the shrink_folio_list() function, there still remains some logic related to writeback control of dirty file folios. The original logic was that, for direct reclaim, or when folio_test_reclaim() is false, or the PGDAT_DIRTY flag is not set, the dirty file folios would be directly activated to avoid being scanned again; otherwise, it will try to writeback the dirty file folios. However, since we can no longer perform writeback on dirty folios, the dirty file folios will still be activated. Additionally, under the original logic, if we continue to try writeback dirty file folios, we will also check the references flag, sc->may_writepage, and may_enter_fs(), which may result in dirty file folios being left in the inactive list. This is unreasonable. Even if these dirty folios are scanned again, we still cannot clean them. Therefore, the checks on these dirty file folios appear to be redundant and can be removed. Dirty file folios should be directly moved to the active list to avoid being scanned again. Since we set the PG_reclaim flag for the dirty folios, once the writeback is completed, they will be moved back to the tail of the inactive list to be retried for quick reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba5c49955fd93c6850bcc19abf0e02e1573768aa.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm: vmscan: filter out the dirty file folios for node_reclaim()Baolin Wang
Patch series "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim", v2. Since we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios during reclaim, some logic for handling dirty file folios in the reclaim process also needs to be updated. Please check the details in each patch. This patch (of 2): After commit 6b0dfabb3555 ("fs: Remove aops->writepage"), we no longer attempt to write back filesystem folios in pageout(), and only tmpfs/shmem folios and anonymous swapcache folios can be written back. Therefore, we should also filter out the dirty filesystem folios for node_reclaim() to avoid unnecessary LRU scans. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c91f5ecc5152b647904c7503618a01885d913928.1760687075.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm/vmscan: remove redundant __GFP_NOWARNFushuai Wang
The __GFP_NOWARN flag was included in GFP_NOWAIT since commit 16f5dfbc851b ("gfp: include __GFP_NOWARN in GFP_NOWAIT"). So remove the redundant __GFP_NOWARN flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251006014948.44695-1-wangfushuai@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Fushuai Wang <wangfushuai@baidu.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm: replace READ_ONCE() with standard page table accessorsAnshuman Khandual
Replace all READ_ONCE() with a standard page table accessors i.e pxdp_get() that defaults into READ_ONCE() in cases where platform does not override. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251007063100.2396936-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: re-enable kswapd when memory pressure subsides or demotion is toggledChanwon Park
If kswapd fails to reclaim pages from a node MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES in a row, kswapd on that node gets disabled. That is, the system won't wakeup kswapd for that node until page reclamation is observed at least once. That reclamation is mostly done by direct reclaim, which in turn enables kswapd back. However, on systems with CXL memory nodes, workloads with high anon page usage can disable kswapd indefinitely, without triggering direct reclaim. This can be reproduced with following steps: numa node 0 (32GB memory, 48 CPUs) numa node 2~5 (512GB CXL memory, 128GB each) (numa node 1 is disabled) swap space 8GB 1) Set /sys/kernel/mm/demotion_enabled to 0. 2) Set /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing to 0. 3) Run a process that allocates and random accesses 500GB of anon pages. 4) Let the process exit normally. During 3), free memory on node 0 gets lower than low watermark, and kswapd runs and depletes swap space. Then, kswapd fails consecutively and gets disabled. Allocation afterwards happens on CXL memory, so node 0 never gains more memory pressure to trigger direct reclaim. After 4), kswapd on node 0 remains disabled, and tasks running on that node are unable to swap. If you turn on NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING and demotion now, it won't work properly since kswapd is disabled. To mitigate this problem, reset kswapd_failures to 0 on following conditions: a) ZONE_BELOW_HIGH bit of a zone in hopeless node with a fallback memory node gets cleared. b) demotion_enabled is changed from false to true. Rationale for a): ZONE_BELOW_HIGH bit being cleared might be a sign that the node may be reclaimable afterwards. This won't help much if the memory-hungry process keeps running without freeing anything, but at least the node will go back to reclaimable state when the process exits. Rationale for b): When demotion_enabled is false, kswapd can only reclaim anon pages by swapping them out to swap space. If demotion_enabled is turned on, kswapd can demote anon pages to another node for reclaiming. So, the original failure count for determining reclaimability is no longer valid. Since kswapd_failures resets may be missed by ++ operation, it is changed from int to atomic_t. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak whitespace] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aL6qGi69jWXfPc4D@pcw-MS-7D22 Signed-off-by: Chanwon Park <flyinrm@gmail.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm, swap: use the swap table for the swap cache and switch APIKairui Song
Introduce basic swap table infrastructures, which are now just a fixed-sized flat array inside each swap cluster, with access wrappers. Each cluster contains a swap table of 512 entries. Each table entry is an opaque atomic long. It could be in 3 types: a shadow type (XA_VALUE), a folio type (pointer), or NULL. In this first step, it only supports storing a folio or shadow, and it is a drop-in replacement for the current swap cache. Convert all swap cache users to use the new sets of APIs. Chris Li has been suggesting using a new infrastructure for swap cache for better performance, and that idea combined well with the swap table as the new backing structure. Now the lock contention range is reduced to 2M clusters, which is much smaller than the 64M address_space. And we can also drop the multiple address_space design. All the internal works are done with swap_cache_get_* helpers. Swap cache lookup is still lock-less like before, and the helper's contexts are same with original swap cache helpers. They still require a pin on the swap device to prevent the backing data from being freed. Swap cache updates are now protected by the swap cluster lock instead of the XArray lock. This is mostly handled internally, but new __swap_cache_* helpers require the caller to lock the cluster. So, a few new cluster access and locking helpers are also introduced. A fully cluster-based unified swap table can be implemented on top of this to take care of all count tracking and synchronization work, with dynamic allocation. It should reduce the memory usage while making the performance even better. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-12-ryncsn@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm, swap: cleanup swap cache API and add kerneldocKairui Song
In preparation for replacing the swap cache backend with the swap table, clean up and add proper kernel doc for all swap cache APIs. Now all swap cache APIs are well-defined with consistent names. No feature change, only renaming and documenting. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-9-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable in order to pick upAndrew Morton
changes required by mm-stable material: hugetlb and damon.
2025-09-13mm: fix duplicate accounting of free pages in should_reclaim_retry()liuqiqi
In the zone_reclaimable_pages() function, if the page counts for NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON, and NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON are all zero, the function returns the number of free pages as the result. In this case, when should_reclaim_retry() calculates reclaimable pages, it will inadvertently double-count the free pages in its accounting. static inline bool should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order, struct alloc_context *ac, int alloc_flags, bool did_some_progress, int *no_progress_loops) { ... available = reclaimable = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone); available += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); This may result in an increase in the number of retries of __alloc_pages_slowpath(), causing increased kswapd load. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250812070210.1624218-1-liuqiqi@kylinos.cn Fixes: 6aaced5abd32 ("mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim()") Signed-off-by: liuqiqi <liuqiqi@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13mm: introduce memdesc_flags_tMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t". At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct folio. This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags' word of all three structures. This gives us a certain amount of type safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID, section number and zone number in the upper bits. That lets us have functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone. There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f instead. That's most of the churn here. Maybe we should be removing these things from the debug output? This patch (of 11): Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef. In upcoming patches, this will provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to functions which take this as an argument. [willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org [nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13mm/mglru: update MG-LRU proactive reclaim statistics only to memcgHao Jia
Users can use /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen to trigger proactive memory reclaim of a specified memcg. Currently, statistics such as pgrefill, pgscan and pgsteal will be updated to the /proc/vmstat system memory statistics. This will confuse some system memory pressure monitoring tools, making it difficult to determine whether pgscan and pgsteal are caused by system-level pressure or by proactive memory reclaim of some specific memory cgroup. Therefore, make this interface behave similarly to memory.reclaim. Update proactive memory reclaim statistics only to its memory cgroup. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250717082845.34673-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao1@lixiang.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13mm: revert "mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress test"Hugh Dickins
This reverts commit 0885ef470560: that was a fix to the reverted 33dfe9204f29b415bbc0abb1a50642d1ba94f5e9. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aa0e9d67-fbcd-9d79-88a1-641dfbe1d9d1@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: yangge <yangge1116@126.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-10mm/vmscan: fix inverted polarity in lru_gen_seq_show()Danilo Krummrich
Commit a7694ff11aa9 ("vmscan: don't bother with debugfs_real_fops()") started using debugfs_get_aux_num() to distinguish between the RW "lru_gen" and the RO "lru_gen_full" file [1]. Willy reported the inverted polarity [2] and Al fixed it up in [3]. However, the patch in [1] was applied. Hence, fix this up accordingly. Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250704040720.GP1880847@ZenIV/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aGZu3Z730FQtqxsE@casper.infradead.org/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250704040720.GP1880847@ZenIV/ [3] Fixes: a7694ff11aa9 ("vmscan: don't bother with debugfs_real_fops()") Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250727105937.7480-1-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
2025-07-31Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'driver-core-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich: "debugfs: - Remove unneeded debugfs_file_{get,put}() instances - Remove last remnants of debugfs_real_fops() - Allow storing non-const void * in struct debugfs_inode_info::aux sysfs: - Switch back to attribute_group::bin_attrs (treewide) - Switch back to bin_attribute::read()/write() (treewide) - Constify internal references to 'struct bin_attribute' Support cache-ids for device-tree systems: - Add arch hook arch_compact_of_hwid() - Use arch_compact_of_hwid() to compact MPIDR values on arm64 Rust: - Device: - Introduce CoreInternal device context (for bus internal methods) - Provide generic drvdata accessors for bus devices - Provide Driver::unbind() callbacks - Use the infrastructure above for auxiliary, PCI and platform - Implement Device::as_bound() - Rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw() (treewide) - Implement fwnode and device property abstractions - Implement example usage in the Rust platform sample driver - Devres: - Remove the inner reference count (Arc) and use pin-init instead - Replace Devres::new_foreign_owned() with devres::register() - Require T to be Send in Devres<T> - Initialize the data kept inside a Devres last - Provide an accessor for the Devres associated Device - Device ID: - Add support for ACPI device IDs and driver match tables - Split up generic device ID infrastructure - Use generic device ID infrastructure in net::phy - DMA: - Implement the dma::Device trait - Add DMA mask accessors to dma::Device - Implement dma::Device for PCI and platform devices - Use DMA masks from the DMA sample module - I/O: - Implement abstraction for resource regions (struct resource) - Implement resource-based ioremap() abstractions - Provide platform device accessors for I/O (remap) requests - Misc: - Support fallible PinInit types in Revocable - Implement Wrapper<T> for Opaque<T> - Merge pin-init blanket dependencies (for Devres) Misc: - Fix OF node leak in auxiliary_device_create() - Use util macros in device property iterators - Improve kobject sample code - Add device_link_test() for testing device link flags - Fix typo in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-address_bits - Hint to prefer container_of_const() over container_of()" * tag 'driver-core-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (84 commits) rust: io: fix broken intra-doc links to `platform::Device` rust: io: fix broken intra-doc link to missing `flags` module rust: io: mem: enable IoRequest doc-tests rust: platform: add resource accessors rust: io: mem: add a generic iomem abstraction rust: io: add resource abstraction rust: samples: dma: set DMA mask rust: platform: implement the `dma::Device` trait rust: pci: implement the `dma::Device` trait rust: dma: add DMA addressing capabilities rust: dma: implement `dma::Device` trait rust: net::phy Change module_phy_driver macro to use module_device_table macro rust: net::phy represent DeviceId as transparent wrapper over mdio_device_id rust: device_id: split out index support into a separate trait device: rust: rename Device::as_ref() to Device::from_raw() arm64: cacheinfo: Provide helper to compress MPIDR value into u32 cacheinfo: Add arch hook to compress CPU h/w id into 32 bits for cache-id cacheinfo: Set cache 'id' based on DT data container_of: Document container_of() is not to be used in new code driver core: auxiliary bus: fix OF node leak ...
2025-07-24mm: optimize lru_note_cost() by adding lru_note_cost_unlock_irq()Hugh Dickins
Dropping a lock, just to demand it again for an afterthought, cannot be good if contended: convert lru_note_cost() to lru_note_cost_unlock_irq(). [hughd@google.com: delete unneeded comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dbf9352a-1ed9-a021-c0c7-9309ac73e174@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/21100102-51b6-79d5-03db-1bb7f97fa94c@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Tested-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-24mm/mglru: stop try_to_inc_min_seq() if min_seq[type] has not increasedHao Jia
In try_to_inc_min_seq(), if min_seq[type] has not increased. In other words, min_seq[type] == lrugen->min_seq[type]. Then we should return directly to avoid unnecessary overhead later. Corollary: If min_seq[type] of both anonymous and file is not increased, try_to_inc_min_seq() will fail. Proof: It is known that min_seq[type] has not increased, that is, min_seq[type] is equal to lrugen->min_seq[type], then the following: case 1: min_seq[type] has not been reassigned and changed before judgment min_seq[type] <= lrugen->min_seq[type]. Then the subsequent min_seq[type] <= lrugen->min_seq[type] judgment will always be true. case 2: min_seq[type] is reassigned to seq, before judgment min_seq[type] <= lrugen->min_seq[type]. Then at least the condition of min_seq[type] > seq must be met before min_seq[type] will be reassigned to seq. That is to say, before the reassignment, lrugen->min_seq[type] > seq is met, and then min_seq[type] = seq. Then the following min_seq[type](seq) <= lrugen->min_seq[type] judgment is always true. Therefore, in try_to_inc_min_seq(), If min_seq[type] of both anonymous and file is not increased, we can return false directly to avoid unnecessary overhead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703023946.65315-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao1@lixiang.com> Suggested-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_listJinjiang Tu
In shrink_folio_list(), the hwpoisoned folio may be large folio, which can't be handled by unmap_poisoned_folio(). For THP, try_to_unmap_one() must be passed with TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD to split huge PMD first and then retry. Without TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger null-ptr deref of pvmw.pte. Even we passed TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE due to the page isn't in swapcache. Since UCE is rare in real world, and race with reclaimation is more rare, just skipping the hwpoisoned large folio is enough. memory_failure() will handle it if the UCE is triggered again. This happens when memory reclaim for large folio races with memory_failure(), and will lead to kernel panic. The race is as follows: cpu0 cpu1 shrink_folio_list memory_failure TestSetPageHWPoison unmap_poisoned_folio --> trigger BUG_ON due to unmap_poisoned_folio couldn't handle large folio [tujinjiang@huawei.com: add comment to unmap_poisoned_folio()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/69fd4e00-1b13-d5f7-1c82-705c7d977ea4@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250627125747.3094074-2-tujinjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Fixes: 1b0449544c64 ("mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio") Reported-by: syzbot+3b220254df55d8ca8a61@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68412d57.050a0220.2461cf.000e.GAE@google.com/ Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interfaceDavidlohr Bueso
This adds support for allowing proactive reclaim in general on a NUMA system. A per-node interface extends support for beyond a memcg-specific interface, respecting the current semantics of memory.reclaim: respecting aging LRU and not supporting artificially triggering eviction on nodes belonging to non-bottom tiers. This patch allows userspace to do: echo "512M swappiness=10" > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim One of the premises for this is to semantically align as best as possible with memory.reclaim. During a brief time memcg did support nodemask until 55ab834a86a9 (Revert "mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim"), for which semantics around reclaim (eviction) vs demotion were not clear, rendering charging expectations to be broken. With this approach: 1. Users who do not use memcg can benefit from proactive reclaim. The memcg interface is not NUMA aware and there are usecases that are focusing on NUMA balancing rather than workload memory footprint. 2. Proactive reclaim on top tiers will trigger demotion, for which memory is still byte-addressable. Reclaiming on the bottom nodes will trigger evicting to swap (the traditional sense of reclaim). This follows the semantics of what is today part of the aging process on tiered memory, mirroring what every other form of reclaim does (reactive and memcg proactive reclaim). Furthermore per-node proactive reclaim is not as susceptible to the memcg charging problem mentioned above. 3. Unlike the nodes= arg, this interface avoids confusing semantics, such as what exactly the user wants when mixing top-tier and low-tier nodes in the nodemask. Further per-node interface is less exposed to "free up memory in my container" usecases, where eviction is intended. 4. Users that *really* want to free up memory can use proactive reclaim on nodes knowingly to be on the bottom tiers to force eviction in a natural way - higher access latencies are still better than swap. If compelled, while no guarantees and perhaps not worth the effort, users could also also potentially follow a ladder-like approach to eventually free up the memory. Alternatively, perhaps an 'evict' option could be added to the parameters for both memory.reclaim and per-node interfaces to force this action unconditionally. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: user_proactive_reclaim(): return -EBUSY on PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED contention, per Roman] [dave@stgolabs.net: memcg && node is also a bogus case, per Shakeel] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250717235604.2atyx2aobwowpge3@offworld Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-5-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19mm/vmscan: make __node_reclaim() more genericDavidlohr Bueso
As this will be called from non page allocator paths for proactive reclaim, allow users to pass the sc and nr of pages, and adjust the return value as well. No change in semantics. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-4-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19mm/memcg: make memory.reclaim interface genericDavidlohr Bueso
This adds a general call for both parsing as well as the common reclaim semantics. memcg is still the only user and no change in semantics. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-3-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19mm/vmscan: respect psi_memstall region in node reclaimDavidlohr Bueso
Patch series "mm: per-node proactive reclaim", v2. This adds support for allowing proactive reclaim in general on a NUMA system. A per-node interface extends support for beyond a memcg-specific interface, respecting the current semantics of memory.reclaim: respecting aging LRU and not supporting artificially triggering eviction on nodes belonging to non-bottom tiers. This patch allows userspace to do: echo 512M swappiness=10 > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim One of the premises for this is to semantically align as best as possible with memory.reclaim. During a brief time memcg did support nodemask until 55ab834a86a9 (Revert "mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim"), for which semantics around reclaim (eviction) vs demotion were not clear, rendering charging expectations to be broken. With this approach: 1. Users who do not use memcg can benefit from proactive reclaim. 2. Proactive reclaim on top tiers will trigger demotion, for which memory is still byte-addressable. Reclaiming on the bottom nodes will trigger evicting to swap (the traditional sense of reclaim). This follows the semantics of what is today part of the aging process on tiered memory, mirroring what every other form of reclaim does (reactive and memcg proactive reclaim). Furthermore per-node proactive reclaim is not as susceptible to the memcg charging problem mentioned above. 3. Unlike memcg, there should be no surprises of callers expecting reclaim but instead got a demotion. Essentially relying on behavior of shrink_folio_list() after 6b426d071419 ("mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim"), without the expectations of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(). 4. Unlike the nodes= arg, this interface avoids confusing semantics, such as what exactly the user wants when mixing top-tier and low-tier nodes in the nodemask. Further per-node interface is less exposed to "free up memory in my container" usecases, where eviction is intended. 5. Users that *really* want to free up memory can use proactive reclaim on nodes knowingly to be on the bottom tiers to force eviction in a natural way - higher access latencies are still better than swap. If compelled, while no guarantees and perhaps not worth the effort, users could also also potentially follow a ladder-like approach to eventually free up the memory. Alternatively, perhaps an 'evict' option could be added to the parameters for both memory.reclaim and per-node interfaces to force this action unconditionally. This patch (of 4): ... rather benign but keep proper ending order. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-1-dave@stgolabs.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-2-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-13mm: remove __folio_test_movable()David Hildenbrand
Convert to page_has_movable_ops(). While at it, cleanup relevant code a bit. The data_race() in migrate_folio_unmap() is questionable: we already hold a page reference, and concurrent modifications can no longer happen (iow: __ClearPageMovable() no longer exists). Drop it for now, we'll rework page_has_movable_ops() soon either way to no longer rely on page->mapping. Wherever we cast from folio to page now is a clear sign that this code has to be decoupled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704102524.326966-19-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Eugenio Pé rez <eperezma@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: remove redundant pXd_devmap callsAlistair Popple
DAX was the only thing that created pmd_devmap and pud_devmap entries however it no longer does as DAX pages are now refcounted normally and pXd_trans_huge() returns true for those. Therefore checking both pXd_devmap and pXd_trans_huge() is redundant and the former can be removed without changing behaviour as it will always be false. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d58f089dc16b7feb7c6728164f37dea65d64a0d3.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: convert vmf_insert_mixed() from using pte_devmap to pte_specialAlistair Popple
DAX no longer requires device PTEs as it always has a ZONE_DEVICE page associated with the PTE that can be reference counted normally. Other users of pte_devmap are drivers that set PFN_DEV when calling vmf_insert_mixed() which ensures vm_normal_page() returns NULL for these entries. There is no reason to distinguish these pte_devmap users so in order to free up a PTE bit use pte_special instead for entries created with vmf_insert_mixed(). This will ensure vm_normal_page() will continue to return NULL for these pages. Architectures that don't support pte_special also don't support pte_devmap so those will continue to rely on pfn_valid() to determine if the page can be mapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/93086bd446e7bf8e4c85345613ac18f706b01f60.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: update core kernel code to use vm_flags_t consistentlyLorenzo Stoakes
The core kernel code is currently very inconsistent in its use of vm_flags_t vs. unsigned long. This prevents us from changing the type of vm_flags_t in the future and is simply not correct, so correct this. While this results in rather a lot of churn, it is a critical pre-requisite for a future planned change to VMA flag type. Additionally, update VMA userland tests to account for the changes. To make review easier and to break things into smaller parts, driver and architecture-specific changes is left for a subsequent commit. The code has been adjusted to cascade the changes across all calling code as far as is needed. We will adjust architecture-specific and driver code in a subsequent patch. Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1588e7bb96d1ea3fe7b9df2c699d5b4592d901d.1750274467.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09Revert "mm: make alloc_demote_folio externally invokable for migration"SeongJae Park
This reverts commit a00ce85af2a1be494d3b0c9457e8e81cdcce2a89. Commit a00ce85af2a1 ("mm: make alloc_demote_folio externally invokable for migration") was made to let DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} call the function. But a previous commit made DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} call alloc_migration_target() instead. Hence there are no more callers of the function outside of vmscan.c. Revert the commit to make the function static again. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250616172346.67659-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09Revert "mm: rename alloc_demote_folio to alloc_migrate_folio"SeongJae Park
This reverts commit 8f75267d22bdf8e3baf70f2fa7092d8c2f58da71. Commit 8f75267d22bd ("mm: rename alloc_demote_folio to alloc_migrate_folio") was to reflect the fact the function is called for not only demotion, but also general migrations from DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}. The previous commit made the DAMOS actions to not use alloc_migrate_folio(), though. So, demote_folio_list() is the only caller of alloc_migrate_folio(), and the name could now be rather confusing. Revert the renaming commit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250616172346.67659-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: stop passing a writeback_control structure to swap_writeoutChristoph Hellwig
swap_writeout only needs the swap_iocb cookie from the writeback_control structure, so pass it explicitly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: stop passing a writeback_control structure to shmem_writeoutChristoph Hellwig
shmem_writeout only needs the swap_iocb cookie and the split folio list. Pass those explicitly and remove the now unused list member from struct writeback_control. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: split out a writeout helper from pageoutChristoph Hellwig
Patch series "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout", v3. This series was intended to remove the last remaining users of AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE after my other pending patches removed the rest, but spectacularly failed at that. But instead it nicely improves the code, and removes two pointers from struct writeback_control. This patch (of 6): Move the code to write back swap / shmem folios into a self-contained helper to keep prepare for refactoring it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-1-hch@lst.de Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.aibaba.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: vmscan: apply proportional reclaim pressure for memcg when MGLRU is enabledKoichiro Den
The scan implementation for MGLRU was missing proportional reclaim pressure for memcg, which contradicts the description in Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst (memory.{low,min} section). This issue can be observed in kselftest cgroup:test_memcontrol (specifically test_memcg_min and test_memcg_low). The following table shows the actual values observed in my local test env (on xfs) and the error "e", which is the symmetric absolute percentage error from the ideal values of 29M for c[0] and 21M for c[1]. test_memcg_min | MGLRU enabled | MGLRU enabled | MGLRU disabled | Without patch | With patch | -----|-----------------|-----------------|--------------- c[0] | 25964544 (e=8%) | 28770304 (e=3%) | 27820032 (e=4%) c[1] | 26214400 (e=9%) | 23998464 (e=4%) | 24776704 (e=6%) test_memcg_low | MGLRU enabled | MGLRU enabled | MGLRU disabled | Without patch | With patch | -----|-----------------|-----------------|--------------- c[0] | 26214400 (e=7%) | 27930624 (e=4%) | 27688960 (e=5%) c[1] | 26214400 (e=9%) | 24764416 (e=6%) | 24920064 (e=6%) Factor out the proportioning logic to a new function and have MGLRU reuse it. While at it, update the eviction behavior via debugfs 'lru_gen' interface ('-' command with an explicit 'nr_to_reclaim' parameter) to ensure eviction is limited to the specified number. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250530162353.541882-1-den@valinux.co.jp Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09vmscan: don't bother with debugfs_real_fops()Al Viro
... not when it's used only to check which file is used; debugfs_create_file_aux_num() allows to stash a number into debugfs entry and debugfs_get_aux_num() extracts it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Braino-spotted-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702211739.GE3406663@ZenIV Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-02Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Remove tmp page copying in writeback path (Joanne). This removes ~300 lines and with that a lot of complexity related to avoiding reclaim related deadlock. The old mechanism is replaced with a mapping flag that tells the MM not to block reclaim waiting for writeback to complete. The MM parts have been reviewed/acked by respective maintainers. - Convert more code to handle large folios (Joanne). This still just adds the code to deal with large folios and does not enable them yet. - Allow invalidating all cached lookups atomically (Luis Henriques). This feature is useful for CernVMFS, which currently does this iteratively. - Align write prefaulting in fuse with generic one (Dave Hansen) - Fix race causing invalid data to be cached when setting attributes on different nodes of a distributed fs (Guang Yuan Wu) - Update documentation for passthrough (Chen Linxuan) - Add fdinfo about the device number associated with an opened /dev/fuse instance (Chen Linxuan) - Increase readdir buffer size (Miklos). This depends on a patch to VFS readdir code that was already merged through Christians tree. - Optimize io-uring request expiration (Joanne) - Misc cleanups * tag 'fuse-update-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (25 commits) fuse: increase readdir buffer size readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying fuse: support large folios for writeback fuse: support large folios for readahead fuse: support large folios for queued writes fuse: support large folios for stores fuse: support large folios for symlinks fuse: support large folios for folio reads fuse: support large folios for writethrough writes fuse: refactor fuse_fill_write_pages() fuse: support large folios for retrieves fuse: support copying large folios fs: fuse: add dev id to /dev/fuse fdinfo docs: filesystems: add fuse-passthrough.rst MAINTAINERS: update filter of FUSE documentation fuse: fix race between concurrent setattrs from multiple nodes fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree mm: skip folio reclaim in legacy memcg contexts for deadlockable mappings fuse: optimize over-io-uring request expiration check ...
2025-05-31Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide this. - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up and better prepare us for future work. - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory block size. - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's memory consumption was dramatic. - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to this part of our swap handling code. - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...
2025-05-26Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner: "This converts vboxfs from ->writepage() to ->writepages(). This was the last user of the ->writepage() method. So remove ->writepage() completely and all references to it" * tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: Remove aops->writepage mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage() ttm: Call shmem_writeout() from ttm_backup_backup_page() i915: Use writeback_iter() shmem: Add shmem_writeout() writeback: Remove writeback_use_writepage() migrate: Remove call to ->writepage vboxsf: Convert to writepages 9p: Add a migrate_folio method
2025-05-22memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqsShakeel Butt
Let's make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs. The only thing needed is to convert the usage of __this_cpu_add() to this_cpu_add(). In addition, with re-entrant safety, there is no need to disable irqs. Also add warnings for in_nmi() as it is not safe against nmi context. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514184158.3471331-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12mm: use SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY in MGLRUZhongkun He
Using SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY instead of MAX_SWAPPINESS + 1 to indicate reclaiming only from anonymous pages makes the code more readable and explicit. Add some comment in the SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY context. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/529db7ae6098ee712b81e4df290622e4e64ac50c.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12mm: add max swappiness arg to lru_gen for anonymous memory onlyZhongkun He
The MGLRU already supports reclaiming only from anonymous memory via the /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen interface. Now, memory.reclaim also supports the swappiness=max parameter to enable reclaiming solely from anonymous memory. To unify the semantics of proactive reclaiming from anonymous folios, the max parameter is introduced. [hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com: use strcmp instead of strncmp, if swappiness is not set, use the default value] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250507071057.3184240-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak coding style] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65181f7745d657d664d833c26d8a94cae40538b9.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12mm: vmscan: add more comments about cache_trim_modeZhongkun He
Add more comments for cache_trim_mode, and the annotations provided by Johannes Weiner in [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314141833.GA1316033@cmpxchg.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4baad87ba637f1e6f666e9b99b3fdcb7ab39171b.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12mm: add swappiness=max arg to memory.reclaim for only anon reclaimZhongkun He
Patch series "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen", v4. This patchset adds max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen for anon only proactive memory reclaim. With commit <68cd9050d871> ("mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim") we can submit an additional swappiness=<val> argument to memory.reclaim. It is very useful because we can dynamically adjust the reclamation ratio based on the anonymous folios and file folios of each cgroup. For example,when swappiness is set to 0, we only reclaim from file folios. But we can not relciam memory just from anon folios. This patchset introduces a new macro, SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY, defined as MAX_SWAPPINESS + 1, represent the max arg semantics. It specifically indicates that reclamation should occur only from anonymous pages. Patch 1 adds swappiness=max arg to memory.reclaim suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed Patch 2 add more comments for cache_trim_mode from Johannes Weiner in [1]. Patch 3 add max arg to lru_gen for proactive memory reclaim in MGLRU. The MGLRU already supports reclaiming exclusively from anonymous pages. This patch formalizes that behavior by introducing a max parameter to represent the corresponding semantics. Patch 4 using SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY in MGLRU Using SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY instead of MAX_SWAPPINESS + 1 to indicate reclaiming only from anonymous pages makes the code more readable and explicit Here is the previous discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314033350.1156370-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250312094337.2296278-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250318135330.3358345-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com/ This patch (of 4): With commit <68cd9050d871> ("mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim") we can submit an additional swappiness=<val> argument to memory.reclaim. It is very useful because we can dynamically adjust the reclamation ratio based on the anonymous folios and file folios of each cgroup. For example,when swappiness is set to 0, we only reclaim from file folios. However,we have also encountered a new issue: when swappiness is set to the MAX_SWAPPINESS, it may still only reclaim file folios. So, we hope to add a new arg 'swappiness=max' in memory.reclaim where proactive memory reclaim only reclaims from anonymous folios when swappiness is set to max. The swappiness semantics from a user perspective remain unchanged. For example, something like this: echo "2M swappiness=max" > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim will perform reclaim on the rootcg with a swappiness setting of 'max' (a new mode) regardless of the file folios. Users have a more comprehensive view of the application's memory distribution because there are many metrics available. For example, if we find that a certain cgroup has a large number of inactive anon folios, we can reclaim only those and skip file folios, because with the zram/zswap, the IO tradeoff that cache_trim_mode or other file first logic is making doesn't hold - file refaults will cause IO, whereas anon decompression will not. With this patch, the swappiness argument of memory.reclaim has a new mode 'max', means reclaiming just from anonymous folios both in traditional LRU and MGLRU. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314141833.GA1316033@cmpxchg.org/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/519e12b9b1f8c31a01e228c8b4b91a2419684f77.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaimGregory Price
It is possible for a reclaimer to cause demotions of an lruvec belonging to a cgroup with cpuset.mems set to exclude some nodes. Attempt to apply this limitation based on the lruvec's memcg and prevent demotion. Notably, this may still allow demotion of shared libraries or any memory first instantiated in another cgroup. This means cpusets still cannot cannot guarantee complete isolation when demotion is enabled, and the docs have been updated to reflect this. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently - with the noted exceptions. Note on locking: The cgroup_get_e_css reference protects the css->effective_mems, and calls of this interface would be subject to the same race conditions associated with a non-atomic access to cs->effective_mems. So while this interface cannot make strong guarantees of correctness, it can therefore avoid taking a global or rcu_read_lock for performance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424202806.52632-3-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/vmscan: modify the assignment logic of the scan and total_scan variablesHao Ge
The scan and total_scan variables can be initialized to 0 when they are defined, replacing the separate assignment statements. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250417092422.1333620-1-hao.ge@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>