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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area</title>
<updated>2025-10-15T10:00:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T20:24:02+00:00</published>
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commit f52ce0ea90c83a28904c7cc203a70e6434adfecb upstream.

When calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's
workload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was observed:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#98 stuck for 23s! [t2_new_sysv:126916]

CPU: 98 PID: 126916 Comm: t2_new_sysv Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17-rc7
Hardware name: GIGACOMPUTING R2A3-T40-AAV1/Jefferson CIO, BIOS 5.4.4.1 07/15/2025
pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
lr : mte_sync_tags+0x1c0/0x240
sp : ffff80003150bb80
x29: ffff80003150bb80 x28: ffff00739e9705a8 x27: 0000ffd2d6a00000
x26: 0000ff8e4bc00000 x25: 00e80046cde00f45 x24: 0000000000022458
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: 000000011b380000
x20: ffff000000000000 x19: 000000011b379f40 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc875e0aa5e2c
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : fffffc01ce7a5c00 x4 : 00000000046cde00 x3 : fffffc0000000000
x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000000040 x0 : ffff0046cde7c000

Call trace:
  mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
  set_huge_pte_at+0x25c/0x280
  hugetlb_change_protection+0x220/0x430
  change_protection+0x5c/0x8c
  mprotect_fixup+0x10c/0x294
  do_mprotect_pkey.constprop.0+0x2e0/0x3d4
  __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x24/0x44
  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x160
  el0_svc_common+0x48/0x144
  do_el0_svc+0x30/0xe0
  el0_svc+0x30/0xf0
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x148
  el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

Soft lockup is not triggered with THP or base page because there is
cond_resched() called for each PMD size.

Although the soft lockup was triggered by MTE, it should be not MTE
specific.  The other processing which takes long time in the loop may
trigger soft lockup too.

So add cond_resched() for hugetlb to avoid soft lockup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929202402.1663290-1-yang@os.amperecomputing.com
Fixes: 8f860591ffb2 ("[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carl Worth &lt;carl@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) &lt;cl@gentwo.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T09:17:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charan Teja Kalla</name>
<email>charan.kalla@oss.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-24T18:11:38+00:00</published>
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commit 1367da7eb875d01102d2ed18654b24d261ff5393 upstream.

It is possible to hit a zero entry while traversing the vmas in unuse_mm()
called from swapoff path and accessing it causes the OOPS:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000446--&gt; Loading the memory from offset 0x40 on the
XA_ZERO_ENTRY as address.
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000005
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault

The issue is manifested from the below race between the fork() on a
process and swapoff:
fork(dup_mmap())			swapoff(unuse_mm)
---------------                         -----------------
1) Identical mtree is built using
   __mt_dup().

2) copy_pte_range()--&gt;
	copy_nonpresent_pte():
       The dst mm is added into the
    mmlist to be visible to the
    swapoff operation.

3) Fatal signal is sent to the parent
process(which is the current during the
fork) thus skip the duplication of the
vmas and mark the vma range with
XA_ZERO_ENTRY as a marker for this process
that helps during exit_mmap().

				     4) swapoff is tried on the
					'mm' added to the 'mmlist' as
					part of the 2.

				     5) unuse_mm(), that iterates
					through the vma's of this 'mm'
					will hit the non-NULL zero entry
					and operating on this zero entry
					as a vma is resulting into the
					oops.

The proper fix would be around not exposing this partially-valid tree to
others when droping the mmap lock, which is being solved with [1].  A
simpler solution would be checking for MMF_UNSTABLE, as it is set if
mm_struct is not fully initialized in dup_mmap().

Thanks to Liam/Lorenzo/David for all the suggestions in fixing this
issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924181138.1762750-1-charan.kalla@oss.qualcomm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815191031.3769540-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com/ [1]
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla &lt;charan.kalla@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kmsan: fix out-of-bounds access to shadow memory</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:44:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-11T19:58:58+00:00</published>
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commit 85e1ff61060a765d91ee62dc5606d4d547d9d105 upstream.

Running sha224_kunit on a KMSAN-enabled kernel results in a crash in
kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin():

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffbc3840291000
    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    PGD 1810067 P4D 1810067 PUD 192d067 PMD 3c17067 PTE 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 81 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G                 N  6.17.0-rc3 #10 PREEMPT(voluntary)
    Tainted: [N]=TEST
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
    RIP: 0010:kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin+0x91/0x100
    [...]
    Call Trace:
    &lt;TASK&gt;
    __msan_memset+0xee/0x1a0
    sha224_final+0x9e/0x350
    test_hash_buffer_overruns+0x46f/0x5f0
    ? kmsan_get_shadow_origin_ptr+0x46/0xa0
    ? __pfx_test_hash_buffer_overruns+0x10/0x10
    kunit_try_run_case+0x198/0xa00

This occurs when memset() is called on a buffer that is not 4-byte aligned
and extends to the end of a guard page, i.e.  the next page is unmapped.

The bug is that the loop at the end of kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin()
accesses the wrong shadow memory bytes when the address is not 4-byte
aligned.  Since each 4 bytes are associated with an origin, it rounds the
address and size so that it can access all the origins that contain the
buffer.  However, when it checks the corresponding shadow bytes for a
particular origin, it incorrectly uses the original unrounded shadow
address.  This results in reads from shadow memory beyond the end of the
buffer's shadow memory, which crashes when that memory is not mapped.

To fix this, correctly align the shadow address before accessing the 4
shadow bytes corresponding to each origin.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250911195858.394235-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Fixes: 2ef3cec44c60 ("kmsan: do not wipe out origin when doing partial unpoisoning")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large()</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T22:23:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2da6de30e60dd9bb14600eff1cc99df2fa2ddae3 ]

mm/swap.c and mm/mlock.c agree to drain any per-CPU batch as soon as a
large folio is added: so collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() just wastes
effort when calling lru_add_drain[_all]() on a large folio.

But although there is good reason not to batch up PMD-sized folios, we
might well benefit from batching a small number of low-order mTHPs (though
unclear how that "small number" limitation will be implemented).

So ask if folio_may_be_lru_cached() rather than !folio_test_large(), to
insulate those particular checks from future change.  Name preferred to
"folio_is_batchable" because large folios can well be put on a batch: it's
just the per-CPU LRU caches, drained much later, which need care.

Marked for stable, to counter the increase in lru_add_drain_all()s from
"mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57d2eaf8-3607-f318-e0c5-be02dce61ad0@google.com
Fixes: 9a4e9f3b2d73 ("mm: update get_user_pages_longterm to migrate pages allocated from CMA region")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Keir Fraser &lt;keirf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: yangge &lt;yangge1116@126.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Clean cherry-pick now into this tree ]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: revert "mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch"</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T22:19:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit afb99e9f500485160f34b8cad6d3763ada3e80e8 ]

This reverts commit 33dfe9204f29: now that
collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() is checking ref_count instead of lru,
and mlock/munlock do not participate in the revised LRU flag clearing,
those changes are misleading, and enlarge the window during which
mlock/munlock may miss an mlock_count update.

It is possible (I'd hesitate to claim probable) that the greater
likelihood of missed mlock_count updates would explain the "Realtime
threads delayed due to kcompactd0" observed on 6.12 in the Link below.  If
that is the case, this reversion will help; but a complete solution needs
also a further patch, beyond the scope of this series.

Included some 80-column cleanup around folio_batch_add_and_move().

The role of folio_test_clear_lru() (before taking per-memcg lru_lock) is
questionable since 6.13 removed mem_cgroup_move_account() etc; but perhaps
there are still some races which need it - not examined here.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/DU0PR01MB10385345F7153F334100981888259A@DU0PR01MB10385.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/05905d7b-ed14-68b1-79d8-bdec30367eba@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Keir Fraser &lt;keirf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: yangge &lt;yangge1116@126.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Resolved conflicts in applying the revert to this tree ]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm/gup: local lru_add_drain() to avoid lru_add_drain_all()</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T22:16:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a09a8a1fbb374e0053b97306da9dbc05bd384685 ]

In many cases, if collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() does need to drain
the LRU cache to release a reference, the cache in question is on this
same CPU, and much more efficiently drained by a preliminary local
lru_add_drain(), than the later cross-CPU lru_add_drain_all().

Marked for stable, to counter the increase in lru_add_drain_all()s from
"mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration".  Note for clean
backports: can take 6.16 commit a03db236aebf ("gup: optimize longterm
pin_user_pages() for large folio") first.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/66f2751f-283e-816d-9530-765db7edc465@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Keir Fraser &lt;keirf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: yangge &lt;yangge1116@126.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Clean cherry-pick now into this tree ]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T09:13:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-21T14:39:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 98c6d259319ecf6e8d027abd3f14b81324b8c0ad ]

Patch series "mm: better GUP pin lru_add_drain_all()", v2.

Series of lru_add_drain_all()-related patches, arising from recent mm/gup
migration report from Will Deacon.

This patch (of 5):

Will Deacon reports:-

When taking a longterm GUP pin via pin_user_pages(),
__gup_longterm_locked() tries to migrate target folios that should not be
longterm pinned, for example because they reside in a CMA region or
movable zone.  This is done by first pinning all of the target folios
anyway, collecting all of the longterm-unpinnable target folios into a
list, dropping the pins that were just taken and finally handing the list
off to migrate_pages() for the actual migration.

It is critically important that no unexpected references are held on the
folios being migrated, otherwise the migration will fail and
pin_user_pages() will return -ENOMEM to its caller.  Unfortunately, it is
relatively easy to observe migration failures when running pKVM (which
uses pin_user_pages() on crosvm's virtual address space to resolve stage-2
page faults from the guest) on a 6.15-based Pixel 6 device and this
results in the VM terminating prematurely.

In the failure case, 'crosvm' has called mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) on its
mapping of guest memory prior to the pinning.  Subsequently, when
pin_user_pages() walks the page-table, the relevant 'pte' is not present
and so the faulting logic allocates a new folio, mlocks it with
mlock_folio() and maps it in the page-table.

Since commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 ("mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock_page() batch
by pagevec"), mlock/munlock operations on a folio (formerly page), are
deferred.  For example, mlock_folio() takes an additional reference on the
target folio before placing it into a per-cpu 'folio_batch' for later
processing by mlock_folio_batch(), which drops the refcount once the
operation is complete.  Processing of the batches is coupled with the LRU
batch logic and can be forcefully drained with lru_add_drain_all() but as
long as a folio remains unprocessed on the batch, its refcount will be
elevated.

This deferred batching therefore interacts poorly with the pKVM pinning
scenario as we can find ourselves in a situation where the migration code
fails to migrate a folio due to the elevated refcount from the pending
mlock operation.

Hugh Dickins adds:-

!folio_test_lru() has never been a very reliable way to tell if an
lru_add_drain_all() is worth calling, to remove LRU cache references to
make the folio migratable: the LRU flag may be set even while the folio is
held with an extra reference in a per-CPU LRU cache.

5.18 commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 may have made it more unreliable.  Then 6.11
commit 33dfe9204f29 ("mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding
to LRU batch") tried to make it reliable, by moving LRU flag clearing; but
missed the mlock/munlock batches, so still unreliable as reported.

And it turns out to be difficult to extend 33dfe9204f29's LRU flag
clearing to the mlock/munlock batches: if they do benefit from batching,
mlock/munlock cannot be so effective when easily suppressed while !LRU.

Instead, switch to an expected ref_count check, which was more reliable
all along: some more false positives (unhelpful drains) than before, and
never a guarantee that the folio will prove migratable, but better.

Note on PG_private_2: ceph and nfs are still using the deprecated
PG_private_2 flag, with the aid of netfs and filemap support functions.
Although it is consistently matched by an increment of folio ref_count,
folio_expected_ref_count() intentionally does not recognize it, and ceph
folio migration currently depends on that for PG_private_2 folios to be
rejected.  New references to the deprecated flag are discouraged, so do
not add it into the collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() calculation: but
longterm pinning of transiently PG_private_2 ceph and nfs folios (an
uncommon case) may invoke a redundant lru_add_drain_all().  And this makes
easy the backport to earlier releases: up to and including 6.12, btrfs
also used PG_private_2, but without a ref_count increment.

Note for stable backports: requires 6.16 commit 86ebd50224c0 ("mm:
add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/41395944-b0e3-c3ac-d648-8ddd70451d28@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd1f314a-fca1-8f19-cac0-b936c9614557@google.com
Fixes: 9a4e9f3b2d73 ("mm: update get_user_pages_longterm to migrate pages allocated from CMA region")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250815101858.24352-1-will@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Keir Fraser &lt;keirf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: yangge &lt;yangge1116@126.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T09:13:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shivank Garg</name>
<email>shivankg@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-21T14:39:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86ebd50224c0734d965843260d0dc057a9431c61 ]

Patch series " JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" v5.

This patchset addresses a warning that occurs during memory compaction due
to JFS's missing migrate_folio operation.  The warning was introduced by
commit 7ee3647243e5 ("migrate: Remove call to -&gt;writepage") which added
explicit warnings when filesystem don't implement migrate_folio.

The syzbot reported following [1]:
  jfs_metapage_aops does not implement migrate_folio
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5861 at mm/migrate.c:955 fallback_migrate_folio mm/migrate.c:953 [inline]
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5861 at mm/migrate.c:955 move_to_new_folio+0x70e/0x840 mm/migrate.c:1007
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5861 Comm: syz-executor280 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-next-20250411-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
  RIP: 0010:fallback_migrate_folio mm/migrate.c:953 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:move_to_new_folio+0x70e/0x840 mm/migrate.c:1007

To fix this issue, this series implement metapage_migrate_folio() for JFS
which handles both single and multiple metapages per page configurations.

While most filesystems leverage existing migration implementations like
filemap_migrate_folio(), buffer_migrate_folio_norefs() or
buffer_migrate_folio() (which internally used folio_expected_refs()),
JFS's metapage architecture requires special handling of its private data
during migration.  To support this, this series introduce the
folio_expected_ref_count(), which calculates external references to a
folio from page/swap cache, private data, and page table mappings.

This standardized implementation replaces the previous ad-hoc
folio_expected_refs() function and enables JFS to accurately determine
whether a folio has unexpected references before attempting migration.

Implement folio_expected_ref_count() to calculate expected folio reference
counts from:
- Page/swap cache (1 per page)
- Private data (1)
- Page table mappings (1 per map)

While originally needed for page migration operations, this improved
implementation standardizes reference counting by consolidating all
refcount contributors into a single, reusable function that can benefit
any subsystem needing to detect unexpected references to folios.

The folio_expected_ref_count() returns the sum of these external
references without including any reference the caller itself might hold.
Callers comparing against the actual folio_ref_count() must account for
their own references separately.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8bb6fd945af4e0ad9299 [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250430100150.279751-1-shivankg@amd.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250430100150.279751-2-shivankg@amd.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Donet Tom &lt;donettom@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 98c6d259319e ("mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: revert "mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress test"</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T09:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T22:21:12+00:00</published>
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commit 8d79ed36bfc83d0583ab72216b7980340478cdfb upstream.

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 &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Keir Fraser &lt;keirf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Shivank Garg &lt;shivankg@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: yangge &lt;yangge1116@126.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>gup: optimize longterm pin_user_pages() for large folio</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T09:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhe</name>
<email>lizhe.67@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T02:37:42+00:00</published>
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commit a03db236aebfaeadf79396dbd570896b870bda01 upstream.

In the current implementation of longterm pin_user_pages(), we invoke
collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios().  This function iterates through the
list to check whether each folio belongs to the "longterm_unpinnabled"
category.  The folios in this list essentially correspond to a contiguous
region of userspace addresses, with each folio representing a physical
address in increments of PAGESIZE.

If this userspace address range is mapped with large folio, we can
optimize the performance of function collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios()
by reducing the using of READ_ONCE() invoked in
pofs_get_folio()-&gt;page_folio()-&gt;_compound_head().

Also, we can simplify the logic of collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios().
Instead of comparing with prev_folio after calling pofs_get_folio(), we
can check whether the next page is within the same folio.

The performance test results, based on v6.15, obtained through the
gup_test tool from the kernel source tree are as follows.  We achieve an
improvement of over 66% for large folio with pagesize=2M.  For small
folio, we have only observed a very slight degradation in performance.

Without this patch:

    [root@localhost ~] ./gup_test -HL -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:14391 put:10858 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    [root@localhost ~]# ./gup_test -LT -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:130538 put:31676 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

With this patch:

    [root@localhost ~] ./gup_test -HL -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:4867 put:10516 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    [root@localhost ~]# ./gup_test -LT -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:131798 put:31328 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

[lizhe.67@bytedance.com: whitespace fix, per David]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606091917.91384-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606023742.58344-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zhe &lt;lizhe.67@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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