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<title>mm/migrate: fix do_pages_stat in compat mode</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T04:07:54+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christoph Berg</name>
<email>myon@debian.org</email>
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<published>2025-06-24T14:44:27+00:00</published>
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For arrays with more than 16 entries, the old code would incorrectly
advance the pages pointer by 16 words instead of 16 compat_uptr_t.  Fix by
doing the pointer arithmetic inside get_compat_pages_array where pages32
is already a correctly-typed pointer.

Discovered while working on PostgreSQL 18's new NUMA introspection code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aGREU0XTB48w9CwN@msg.df7cb.de
Fixes: 5b1b561ba73c ("mm: simplify compat_sys_move_pages")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Berg &lt;myon@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bertrand Drouvot &lt;bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra &lt;tomas@vondra.me&gt;
Closes: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6342f601-77de-4ee0-8c2a-3deb50ceac5b%40vondra.me#86402e3d80c031788f5f55b42c459471
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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For arrays with more than 16 entries, the old code would incorrectly
advance the pages pointer by 16 words instead of 16 compat_uptr_t.  Fix by
doing the pointer arithmetic inside get_compat_pages_array where pages32
is already a correctly-typed pointer.

Discovered while working on PostgreSQL 18's new NUMA introspection code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aGREU0XTB48w9CwN@msg.df7cb.de
Fixes: 5b1b561ba73c ("mm: simplify compat_sys_move_pages")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Berg &lt;myon@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bertrand Drouvot &lt;bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra &lt;tomas@vondra.me&gt;
Closes: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6342f601-77de-4ee0-8c2a-3deb50ceac5b%40vondra.me#86402e3d80c031788f5f55b42c459471
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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
  ...
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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-&gt;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
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T15:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T15:23:09+00:00</published>
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Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner:
 "This converts vboxfs from -&gt;writepage() to -&gt;writepages().

  This was the last user of the -&gt;writepage() method. So remove
  -&gt;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-&gt;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 -&gt;writepage
  vboxsf: Convert to writepages
  9p: Add a migrate_folio method
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Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner:
 "This converts vboxfs from -&gt;writepage() to -&gt;writepages().

  This was the last user of the -&gt;writepage() method. So remove
  -&gt;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-&gt;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 -&gt;writepage
  vboxsf: Convert to writepages
  9p: Add a migrate_folio method
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move folio_index to mm/swap.h and remove no longer needed helper</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T06:50:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kairui Song</name>
<email>kasong@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-30T18:10:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7d0f0f06153116bb737eef76d47406639e161613'/>
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There are no remaining users of folio_index() outside the mm subsystem. 
Move it to mm/swap.h to co-locate it with swap_cache_index(), eliminating
a forward declaration, and a function call overhead.

Also remove the helper that was used to fix circular header dependency
issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250430181052.55698-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There are no remaining users of folio_index() outside the mm subsystem. 
Move it to mm/swap.h to co-locate it with swap_cache_index(), eliminating
a forward declaration, and a function call overhead.

Also remove the helper that was used to fix circular header dependency
issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250430181052.55698-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T06:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shivank Garg</name>
<email>shivankg@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-30T10:01:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=86ebd50224c0734d965843260d0dc057a9431c61'/>
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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;
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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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/migrate: fix sleep in atomic for large folios and buffer heads</title>
<updated>2025-04-22T16:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-18T01:59:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2d900efff915fe24c3948d28eef9078953d87fec'/>
<id>2d900efff915fe24c3948d28eef9078953d87fec</id>
<content type='text'>
The large folio + buffer head noref migration scenarios are
being naughty and blocking while holding a spinlock.

As a consequence of the pagecache lookup path taking the
folio lock this serializes against migration paths, so
they can wait for each other. For the private_lock
atomic case, a new BH_Migrate flag is introduced which
enables the lookup to bail.

This allows the critical region of the private_lock on
the migration path to be reduced to the way it was before
ebdf4de5642fb6 ("mm: migrate: fix reference  check race
between __find_get_block() and migration"), that is covering
the count checks.

The scope is always noref migration.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+f3c6fda1297c748a7076@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202503101536.27099c77-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 3c20917120ce61 ("block/bdev: enable large folio support for large logical block sizes")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Co-developed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Link: https://kdevops.org/ext4/v6.15-rc2.html # [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aAAEvcrmREWa1SKF@bombadil.infradead.org/ # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250418015921.132400-8-dave@stgolabs.net
Tested-by: kdevops@lists.linux.dev # [0] [1]
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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The large folio + buffer head noref migration scenarios are
being naughty and blocking while holding a spinlock.

As a consequence of the pagecache lookup path taking the
folio lock this serializes against migration paths, so
they can wait for each other. For the private_lock
atomic case, a new BH_Migrate flag is introduced which
enables the lookup to bail.

This allows the critical region of the private_lock on
the migration path to be reduced to the way it was before
ebdf4de5642fb6 ("mm: migrate: fix reference  check race
between __find_get_block() and migration"), that is covering
the count checks.

The scope is always noref migration.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+f3c6fda1297c748a7076@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202503101536.27099c77-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 3c20917120ce61 ("block/bdev: enable large folio support for large logical block sizes")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Co-developed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Link: https://kdevops.org/ext4/v6.15-rc2.html # [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aAAEvcrmREWa1SKF@bombadil.infradead.org/ # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250418015921.132400-8-dave@stgolabs.net
Tested-by: kdevops@lists.linux.dev # [0] [1]
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>migrate: Remove call to -&gt;writepage</title>
<updated>2025-04-07T07:36:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-02T14:59:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7ee3647243e5c4a9d74d4c7ec621eac75c6d37ea'/>
<id>7ee3647243e5c4a9d74d4c7ec621eac75c6d37ea</id>
<content type='text'>
The writepage callback is going away; filesystems must implement
migrate_folio or else dirty folios will not be migratable.

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402150005.2309458-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The writepage callback is going away; filesystems must implement
migrate_folio or else dirty folios will not be migratable.

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402150005.2309458-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: use ptep_get() instead of directly dereferencing pte_t*</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T05:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Roberts</name>
<email>ryan.roberts@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-10T14:04:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5d89666bd99831cee14abcf201b3867d9f15abae'/>
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It is best practice for all pte accesses to go via the arch helpers, to
ensure non-torn values and to allow the arch to intervene where needed
(contpte for arm64 for example).  While in this case it was probably safe
to directly dereference, let's tidy it up for consistency.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310140418.1737409-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It is best practice for all pte accesses to go via the arch helpers, to
ensure non-torn values and to allow the arch to intervene where needed
(contpte for arm64 for example).  While in this case it was probably safe
to directly dereference, let's tidy it up for consistency.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310140418.1737409-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared()</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T05:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-03T16:30:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=003fde4492c88ac3a1fee3d97b3834a679780af3'/>
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Let's reuse our new MM ownership tracking infrastructure for large folios
to make folio_likely_mapped_shared() never return false negatives -- never
indicating "not mapped shared" although the folio *is* mapped shared. 
With that, we can rename it to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() and get rid of
the dependency on the mapcount of the first folio page.

The semantics are now arguably clearer: no mixture of "false negatives"
and "false positives", only the remaining possibility for "false
positives".

Thoroughly document the new semantics.  We might now detect that a large
folio is "maybe mapped shared" although it *no longer* is -- but once was.
Now, if more than two MMs mapped a folio at the same time, and the MM
mapping the folio exclusively at the end is not one tracked in the two
folio MM slots, we will detect the folio as "maybe mapped shared".

For anonymous folios, usually (except weird corner cases) all PTEs that
target a "maybe mapped shared" folio are R/O.  As soon as a child process
would write to them (iow, actively use them), we would CoW and effectively
replace these PTEs.  Most cases (below) are not expected to really matter
with large anonymous folios for this reason.

Most importantly, there will be no change at all for:
* small folios
* hugetlb folios
* PMD-mapped PMD-sized THPs (single mapping)

This change has the potential to affect existing callers of
folio_likely_mapped_shared() -&gt; folio_maybe_mapped_shared():

(1) fs/proc/task_mmu.c: no change (hugetlb)

(2) khugepaged counts PTEs that target shared folios towards
    max_ptes_shared (default: HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2), meaning we could skip a
    collapse where we would have previously collapsed.  This only applies
    to anonymous folios and is not expected to matter in practice.

    Worth noting that this change sorts out case (A) documented in
    commit 1bafe96e89f0 ("mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by
    folio_likely_mapped_shared()") by removing the possibility for "false
    negatives".

(3) MADV_COLD / MADV_PAGEOUT / MADV_FREE will not try splitting
    PTE-mapped THPs that are considered shared but not fully covered by
    the requested range, consequently not processing them.

    PMD-mapped PMD-sized THP are not affected, or when all PTEs are
    covered.  These functions are usually only called on anon/file folios
    that are exclusively mapped most of the time (no other file mappings
    or no fork()), so the "false negatives" are not expected to matter in
    practice.

(4) mbind() / migrate_pages() / move_pages() will refuse to migrate
    shared folios unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is effective (requires
    CAP_SYS_NICE).  We will now reject some folios that could be migrated.

    Similar to (3), especially with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, so this is not
    expected to matter in practice.

    Note that cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn() calls do_migrate_pages() with
    MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL.

(5) NUMA hinting

    mm/migrate.c:migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare() will skip file
    folios that are probably shared libraries (-&gt; "mapped shared" and
    executable).  This check would have detected it as a shared library at
    some point (at least 3 MMs mapping it), so detecting it afterwards
    does not sound wrong (still a shared library).  Not expected to
    matter.

    mm/memory.c:numa_migrate_check() will indicate TNF_SHARED in
    MAP_SHARED file mappings when encountering a shared folio.  Similar
    reasoning, not expected to matter.

    mm/mprotect.c:change_pte_range() will skip folios detected as
    shared in CoW mappings.  Similarly, this is not expected to matter in
    practice, but if it would ever be a problem we could relax that check
    a bit (e.g., basing it on the average page-mapcount in a folio),
    because it was only an optimization when many (e.g., 288) processes
    were mapping the same folios -- see commit 859d4adc3415 ("mm: numa: do
    not trap faults on shared data section pages.")

(6) mm/rmap.c:folio_referenced_one() will skip exclusive swapbacked
    folios in dying processes.  Applies to anonymous folios only.  Without
    "false negatives", we'll now skip all actually shared ones.  Skipping
    ones that are actually exclusive won't really matter, it's a pure
    optimization, and is not expected to matter in practice.

In theory, one can detect the problematic scenario: folio_mapcount() &gt; 0
and no folio MM slot is occupied ("state unknown").  One could reset the
MM slots while doing an rmap walk, which migration / folio split already
do when setting everything up.  Further, when batching PTEs we might
naturally learn about a owner (e.g., folio_mapcount() == nr_ptes) and
could update the owner.  However, we'll defer that until the scenarios
where it would really matter are clear.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-15-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;ioworker0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutn &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: tejun heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan.x@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let's reuse our new MM ownership tracking infrastructure for large folios
to make folio_likely_mapped_shared() never return false negatives -- never
indicating "not mapped shared" although the folio *is* mapped shared. 
With that, we can rename it to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() and get rid of
the dependency on the mapcount of the first folio page.

The semantics are now arguably clearer: no mixture of "false negatives"
and "false positives", only the remaining possibility for "false
positives".

Thoroughly document the new semantics.  We might now detect that a large
folio is "maybe mapped shared" although it *no longer* is -- but once was.
Now, if more than two MMs mapped a folio at the same time, and the MM
mapping the folio exclusively at the end is not one tracked in the two
folio MM slots, we will detect the folio as "maybe mapped shared".

For anonymous folios, usually (except weird corner cases) all PTEs that
target a "maybe mapped shared" folio are R/O.  As soon as a child process
would write to them (iow, actively use them), we would CoW and effectively
replace these PTEs.  Most cases (below) are not expected to really matter
with large anonymous folios for this reason.

Most importantly, there will be no change at all for:
* small folios
* hugetlb folios
* PMD-mapped PMD-sized THPs (single mapping)

This change has the potential to affect existing callers of
folio_likely_mapped_shared() -&gt; folio_maybe_mapped_shared():

(1) fs/proc/task_mmu.c: no change (hugetlb)

(2) khugepaged counts PTEs that target shared folios towards
    max_ptes_shared (default: HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2), meaning we could skip a
    collapse where we would have previously collapsed.  This only applies
    to anonymous folios and is not expected to matter in practice.

    Worth noting that this change sorts out case (A) documented in
    commit 1bafe96e89f0 ("mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by
    folio_likely_mapped_shared()") by removing the possibility for "false
    negatives".

(3) MADV_COLD / MADV_PAGEOUT / MADV_FREE will not try splitting
    PTE-mapped THPs that are considered shared but not fully covered by
    the requested range, consequently not processing them.

    PMD-mapped PMD-sized THP are not affected, or when all PTEs are
    covered.  These functions are usually only called on anon/file folios
    that are exclusively mapped most of the time (no other file mappings
    or no fork()), so the "false negatives" are not expected to matter in
    practice.

(4) mbind() / migrate_pages() / move_pages() will refuse to migrate
    shared folios unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is effective (requires
    CAP_SYS_NICE).  We will now reject some folios that could be migrated.

    Similar to (3), especially with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, so this is not
    expected to matter in practice.

    Note that cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn() calls do_migrate_pages() with
    MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL.

(5) NUMA hinting

    mm/migrate.c:migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare() will skip file
    folios that are probably shared libraries (-&gt; "mapped shared" and
    executable).  This check would have detected it as a shared library at
    some point (at least 3 MMs mapping it), so detecting it afterwards
    does not sound wrong (still a shared library).  Not expected to
    matter.

    mm/memory.c:numa_migrate_check() will indicate TNF_SHARED in
    MAP_SHARED file mappings when encountering a shared folio.  Similar
    reasoning, not expected to matter.

    mm/mprotect.c:change_pte_range() will skip folios detected as
    shared in CoW mappings.  Similarly, this is not expected to matter in
    practice, but if it would ever be a problem we could relax that check
    a bit (e.g., basing it on the average page-mapcount in a folio),
    because it was only an optimization when many (e.g., 288) processes
    were mapping the same folios -- see commit 859d4adc3415 ("mm: numa: do
    not trap faults on shared data section pages.")

(6) mm/rmap.c:folio_referenced_one() will skip exclusive swapbacked
    folios in dying processes.  Applies to anonymous folios only.  Without
    "false negatives", we'll now skip all actually shared ones.  Skipping
    ones that are actually exclusive won't really matter, it's a pure
    optimization, and is not expected to matter in practice.

In theory, one can detect the problematic scenario: folio_mapcount() &gt; 0
and no folio MM slot is occupied ("state unknown").  One could reset the
MM slots while doing an rmap walk, which migration / folio split already
do when setting everything up.  Further, when batching PTEs we might
naturally learn about a owner (e.g., folio_mapcount() == nr_ptes) and
could update the owner.  However, we'll defer that until the scenarios
where it would really matter are clear.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-15-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;ioworker0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutn &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: tejun heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan.x@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for vma-&gt;vm_flags on migrate, mprotect</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T05:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-07T17:24:42+00:00</published>
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According to the syzbot report referenced here, it is possible to
encounter a race between mprotect() writing to the vma-&gt;vm_flags field and
migration checking whether the VMA is locked.

There is no real problem with timing here per se, only that torn
reads/writes may occur.  Therefore, as a proximate fix, ensure both
operations READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to avoid this.

This race is possible due to the ability to look up VMAs via the rmap,
which migration does in this case, which takes no mmap or VMA lock and
therefore does not preclude an operation to modify a VMA.

When the final update of VMA flags is performed by mprotect, this will
cause the rmap lock to be taken while the VMA is inserted on split/merge.

However the means by which we perform splits/merges in the kernel is that
we perform the split/merge operation on the VMA, acquiring/releasing locks
as needed, and only then, after having done so, modifying fields.

We should carefully examine and determine whether we can combine the two
operations so as to avoid such races, and whether it might be possible to
otherwise annotate these rmap field accesses.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250207172442.78836-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+c2e5712cbb14c95d4847@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67a34e60.050a0220.50516.0040.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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According to the syzbot report referenced here, it is possible to
encounter a race between mprotect() writing to the vma-&gt;vm_flags field and
migration checking whether the VMA is locked.

There is no real problem with timing here per se, only that torn
reads/writes may occur.  Therefore, as a proximate fix, ensure both
operations READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to avoid this.

This race is possible due to the ability to look up VMAs via the rmap,
which migration does in this case, which takes no mmap or VMA lock and
therefore does not preclude an operation to modify a VMA.

When the final update of VMA flags is performed by mprotect, this will
cause the rmap lock to be taken while the VMA is inserted on split/merge.

However the means by which we perform splits/merges in the kernel is that
we perform the split/merge operation on the VMA, acquiring/releasing locks
as needed, and only then, after having done so, modifying fields.

We should carefully examine and determine whether we can combine the two
operations so as to avoid such races, and whether it might be possible to
otherwise annotate these rmap field accesses.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250207172442.78836-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+c2e5712cbb14c95d4847@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67a34e60.050a0220.50516.0040.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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