kernel/linux.git/mm/memory-tiers.c, branch linux-7.1.y

mm: introduce CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION and simplify CONFIG_MIGRATION

2026-04-05T20:53:33+00:00

CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, CONFIG_COMPACTION and CONFIG_CMA all select CONFIG_MIGRATION, because they require it to work (users). Only CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING and CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION depend on CONFIG_MIGRATION. CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION is not an actual user, but an implementation of migration support, so the dependency is correct (CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION does not make any sense without CONFIG_MIGRATION). However, kconfig-language.rst clearly states "In general use select only for non-visible symbols". So far CONFIG_MIGRATION is user-visible ... and the dependencies rather confusing. The whole reason why CONFIG_MIGRATION is user-visible is because of CONFIG_NUMA: some users might want CONFIG_NUMA but not page migration support. Let's clean all that up by introducing a dedicated CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION config option for that purpose only. Make CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING that so far depended on CONFIG_NUMA && CONFIG_MIGRATION to depend on CONFIG_MIGRATION instead. CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION will depend on CONFIG_NUMA && CONFIG_MMU. CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION is user-visible and will default to "y". We use that default so new configs will automatically enable it, just like it was the case with CONFIG_MIGRATION. The downside is that some configs that used to have CONFIG_MIGRATION=n might get it re-enabled by CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION=y, which shouldn't be a problem. CONFIG_MIGRATION is now a non-visible config option. Any code that select CONFIG_MIGRATION (as before) must depend directly or indirectly on CONFIG_MMU. CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION is responsible for any NUMA migration code, which is mempolicy migration code, memory-tiering code, and move_pages() code in migrate.c. CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING uses its functionality. Note that this implies that with CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION=n, move_pages() will not be available even though CONFIG_MIGRATION=y, which is an expected change. In migrate.c, we can remove the CONFIG_NUMA check as both CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION and CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING depend on it. With this change, CONFIG_MIGRATION is an internal config, all users of migration selects CONFIG_MIGRATION, and only CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION depends on it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-config_migration-v1-2-42270124966f@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm/vmscan: select the closest preferred node in demote_folio_list()

2026-02-12T23:42:53+00:00

The preferred demotion node (migration_target_control.nid) should be the one closest to the source node to minimize migration latency. Currently, a discrepancy exists where demote_folio_list() randomly selects an allowed node if the preferred node from next_demotion_node() is not set in mems_effective. To address it, update next_demotion_node() to select a preferred target against allowed nodes; and to return the closest demotion target if all preferred nodes are not in mems_effective via next_demotion_node(). It ensures that the preferred demotion target is consistently the closest available node to the source node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, per Shakeel] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-3-bingjiao@google.com Signed-off-by: Bing Jiao Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset

2026-01-31T22:22:38+00:00

Currently, kswapd_failures is reset in multiple places (kswapd, direct reclaim, PCP freeing, memory-tiers), but there's no way to trace when and why it was reset, making it difficult to debug memory reclaim issues. This patch: 1. Introduce kswapd_clear_hopeless() as a wrapper function to centralize kswapd_failures reset logic. 2. Introduce kswapd_test_hopeless() to encapsulate hopeless node checks, replacing all open-coded kswapd_failures comparisons. 3. Add kswapd_clear_hopeless_reason enum to distinguish reset sources: - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_KSWAPD: reset from kswapd context - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_DIRECT: reset from direct reclaim - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_PCP: reset from PCP page freeing - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_OTHER: reset from other paths 4. Add tracepoints for better observability: - mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: traces each reset with reason - mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: traces each kswapd reclaim failure Test results: $ trace-cmd record -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail $ # generate memory pressure $ trace-cmd report cpus=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.216563: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.217169: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.217764: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.218353: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.218993: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.219744: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.220488: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.221206: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.221806: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.222634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.223286: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.223894: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.224712: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.225424: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.226082: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.226810: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.386869: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=1 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.387435: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=2 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.388016: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=3 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.388586: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=4 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.389155: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=5 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.389723: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=6 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.390292: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=7 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.392364: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=8 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.392934: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=9 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.393504: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=10 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.394073: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=11 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.394899: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=12 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.395472: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=13 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.396055: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=14 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.396628: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=15 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.397199: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=16 kworker/u18:0-40 [002] 27.410151: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=DIRECT kswapd0-71 [000] 27.439454: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.440048: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.440634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.441211: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.441787: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.442363: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.443030: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.443725: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.444315: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.444898: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.445476: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.446053: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.446646: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.447230: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.447812: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.448391: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16 ann-423 [003] 28.028285: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=PCP Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120024402.387576-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) [tracing] Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: use nodes_and() return value to simplify client code

2026-01-27T04:02:36+00:00

establish_demotion_targets() and kernel_migrate_pages() call node_empty() immediately after calling nodes_and(). Now that nodes_and() return false if nodemask is empty, drop the latter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114172217.861204-3-ynorov@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Reviewed-by: Gregory Price Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mathew Brost Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix minor spelling mistakes in comments

2026-01-21T03:24:48+00:00

Correct several typos in comments across files in mm/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: also fix comment grammar, per SeongJae] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218150906.25042-1-klourencodev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Lourenco Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix some typos in mm module

2025-11-17T01:27:52+00:00

Below are some typos in the code comments: intevals ==> intervals addesses ==> addresses unavaliable ==> unavailable facor ==> factor droping ==> dropping exlusive ==> exclusive decription ==> description confict ==> conflict desriptions ==> descriptions otherwize ==> otherwise vlaue ==> value cheching ==> checking exisitng ==> existing modifed ==> modified differenciate ==> differentiate refernece ==> reference permissons ==> permissions indepdenent ==> independent spliting ==> splitting Just fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929002608.1633825-1-jianyungao89@gmail.com Signed-off-by: jianyun.gao Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Chris Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: re-enable kswapd when memory pressure subsides or demotion is toggled

2025-09-21T21:22:29+00:00

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 Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton