From b570f37a2ce480be26c665345c5514686a8a0274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Hellstr=C3=B6m?= Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:56:53 +0100 Subject: mm: Fix a hmm_range_fault() livelock / starvation problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If hmm_range_fault() fails a folio_trylock() in do_swap_page, trying to acquire the lock of a device-private folio for migration, to ram, the function will spin until it succeeds grabbing the lock. However, if the process holding the lock is depending on a work item to be completed, which is scheduled on the same CPU as the spinning hmm_range_fault(), that work item might be starved and we end up in a livelock / starvation situation which is never resolved. This can happen, for example if the process holding the device-private folio lock is stuck in migrate_device_unmap()->lru_add_drain_all() sinc lru_add_drain_all() requires a short work-item to be run on all online cpus to complete. A prerequisite for this to happen is: a) Both zone device and system memory folios are considered in migrate_device_unmap(), so that there is a reason to call lru_add_drain_all() for a system memory folio while a folio lock is held on a zone device folio. b) The zone device folio has an initial mapcount > 1 which causes at least one migration PTE entry insertion to be deferred to try_to_migrate(), which can happen after the call to lru_add_drain_all(). c) No or voluntary only preemption. This all seems pretty unlikely to happen, but indeed is hit by the "xe_exec_system_allocator" igt test. Resolve this by waiting for the folio to be unlocked if the folio_trylock() fails in do_swap_page(). Rename migration_entry_wait_on_locked() to softleaf_entry_wait_unlock() and update its documentation to indicate the new use-case. Future code improvements might consider moving the lru_add_drain_all() call in migrate_device_unmap() to be called *after* all pages have migration entries inserted. That would eliminate also b) above. v2: - Instead of a cond_resched() in hmm_range_fault(), eliminate the problem by waiting for the folio to be unlocked in do_swap_page() (Alistair Popple, Andrew Morton) v3: - Add a stub migration_entry_wait_on_locked() for the !CONFIG_MIGRATION case. (Kernel Test Robot) v4: - Rename migrate_entry_wait_on_locked() to softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked() and update docs (Alistair Popple) v5: - Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() for the !CONFIG_MIGRATION version of softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked(). - Modify wording around function names in the commit message (Andrew Morton) Suggested-by: Alistair Popple Fixes: 1afaeb8293c9 ("mm/migrate: Trylock device page in do_swap_page") Cc: Ralph Campbell Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström Cc: # v6.15+ Reviewed-by: John Hubbard #v3 Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260210115653.92413-1-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com (cherry picked from commit a69d1ab971a624c6f112cea61536569d579c3215) Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi --- include/linux/migrate.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index 26ca00c325d9..d5af2b7f577b 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list); int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *dst, struct folio *src); -void migration_entry_wait_on_locked(softleaf_t entry, spinlock_t *ptl) +void softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked(softleaf_t entry, spinlock_t *ptl) __releases(ptl); void folio_migrate_flags(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio); int folio_migrate_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, @@ -97,6 +97,14 @@ static inline int set_movable_ops(const struct movable_operations *ops, enum pag return -ENOSYS; } +static inline void softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked(softleaf_t entry, spinlock_t *ptl) + __releases(ptl) +{ + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); + + spin_unlock(ptl); +} + #endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */ #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING -- cgit v1.2.3