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2026-05-28highmem-internal.h: fix typo in the comment for kunmap_atomic()Zhouyi Zhou
Replace `PREEMP_RT` with `PREEMPT_RT` in the header comment to match the correct kernel configuration name. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260505021125.1941691-1-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat: document kdamond_pid parameterSeongJae Park
Update DAMON_STAT usage document for newly added kdamond_pid parameter. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260502020505.80822-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/stat: add a parameter for reading kdamond pidSeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter". DAMON_STAT doesn't provide the pid of its kdamond, unlike DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT. This makes user-space management of DAMON_STAT unnecessarily complicated. Provide the information via a new parameter, namely kdamond_pid, and document it. This patch (of 2): Knowing the pid of the kdamonds can help user-space management including monitoring of DAMON's system resource consumption. To make it easier, DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT provide the pid information. DAMON_STAT is not providing it, though. Expose the pid of DAMON_STAT kdamond via a new read-only module parameter, namely kdamond_pid. This also makes DAMON modules usage more standardized, because DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT also provide the information via their read-only parameters of the same name. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260502020505.80822-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260502020505.80822-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: update for autotune_monitoring_intervalsSeongJae Park
Update DAMON_RECLAIM usage document for the newly added monitoring intervals auto-tuning enablement parameter. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501011740.81988-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/reclaim: add autotune_monitoring_intervals parameterSeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning". The monitoring intervals auto-tuning feature of DAMON has proven to be useful in multiple environments. Add a new DAMON_RECLAIM parameter for supporting the feature, and update the document for the new parameter. This patch (of 2): DAMON's monitoring intervals auto-tuning feature has proven to be useful in multiple environments. DAMON_RECLAIM is still asking users to do the manual tuning of the intervals. Add a module parameter for utilizing the auto-tuning feature with the suggested default setup. Note that use of the auto-tuning overrides the manually entered monitoring intervals. Also, note that the 'min_age' will dynamically changed proportional to auto-tuned intervals. It is recommended to use 'min_age' short enough and use 'quota_mem_pressure_us' like coldness threshold auto-tuning features together. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501011740.81988-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501011740.81988-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/cgroup: include slab in test_percpu_basic memory checkLi Wang
test_percpu_basic() currently compares memory.current against only memory.stat:percpu after creating 1000 child cgroups. Observed failure: #./test_kmem ok 1 test_kmem_basic ok 2 test_kmem_memcg_deletion ok 3 test_kmem_proc_kpagecgroup ok 4 test_kmem_kernel_stacks ok 5 test_kmem_dead_cgroups memory.current 11530240 percpu 8440000 not ok 6 test_percpu_basic That assumption is too strict: child cgroup creation also allocates slab-backed metadata, so memory.current is expected to be larger than percpu alone. One visible path is: cgroup_mkdir() cgroup_create() cgroup_addrm_file() cgroup_add_file() __kernfs_create_file() __kernfs_new_node() kmem_cache_zalloc() These kernfs allocations are charged as slab and show up in memory.stat:slab. Update the check to compare memory.current against (percpu + slab) within MAX_VMSTAT_ERROR, and print slab/delta in the failure message to improve diagnostics. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501022058.18024-3-li.wang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Li Wang <li.wang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/cgroup: fix hardcoded page size in test_percpu_basicLi Wang
Patch series "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic", v2. This patch series addresses two separate issues that cause false positive failures in the test_percpu_basic test within the cgroup kmem selftests. The first issue stems from a hardcoded assumption about the system page size, which breaks the test on architectures with larger page sizes. The second issue is an overly strict memory check that fails to account for the slab metadata allocated during cgroup creation. This patch (of 2): MAX_VMSTAT_ERROR uses a hardcoded page size of 4096, which assumes 4K pages. This causes test_percpu_basic to fail on systems where the kernel is configured with a larger page size, such as aarch64 systems using 16K or 64K pages, where the maximum permissible discrepancy between memory.current and percpu charges is proportionally larger. Replace the hardcoded 4096 with sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) to correctly derive the page size at runtime regardless of the underlying architecture or kernel configuration. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501022058.18024-1-li.wang@linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260501022058.18024-2-li.wang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Li Wang <li.wang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/filemap: do not count FAULT_FLAG_TRIED retries as mmap hitsfujunjie
A fault that starts synchronous mmap readahead can return VM_FAULT_RETRY after dropping mmap_lock. The retry may then map the folio brought in by that same miss. Do not let this retry decrement mmap_miss. The retry still maps the folio from the page cache; it just does not count as a useful mmap readahead hit. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_22E6B8849EC1141FE7773C64467E6F1E2C09@qq.com Signed-off-by: fujunjie <fujunjie1@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/filemap: count only the faulting address as a mmap hitfujunjie
Patch series "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting", v3. mmap_miss is increased when synchronous mmap readahead is needed, and decreased when filemap_map_pages() maps folios that are already in the page cache. The decrease side can over-credit hits in two cases: - fault-around installs nearby PTEs even though the fault only proves that the faulting address was accessed; - after synchronous mmap readahead returns VM_FAULT_RETRY, the retry can find the folio brought in by the same miss and immediately cancel that miss. Current evidence comes from a local KVM/data-disk microbenchmark using mmap_miss_probe, with an 8 GiB guest, 2 vCPUs, 8192 KiB read_ahead_kb, cold page cache before each run, 1% of the file accessed, and medians of 3 runs. mmap_miss_probe mmap()s a prepared file with MADV_NORMAL and then touches one byte at selected base-page offsets. The access order is random, sequential, or a fixed page stride. The harness drops caches before each run and samples /proc/vmstat around that access loop. The 20 GiB case below is a larger-than-memory file case in an 8 GiB guest. No separate memory hog was used. The 4 GiB case uses the same 8 GiB guest but keeps the file fit-in-memory. Each case used a fresh temporary qcow2 data disk, seen by the guest as /dev/vda, formatted as ext4 and mounted at /mnt/mmap-matrix. Each result is "pgpgin GiB / elapsed seconds". "pgpgin GiB" is the delta of the guest /proc/vmstat pgpgin counter, converted from KiB to GiB; it is used here as an approximate block input counter, not as resident memory or exact application IO. "Elapsed seconds" is the wall-clock runtime of the whole mmap_miss_probe access pass, not per-access latency. For the 20 GiB larger-than-memory case: workload before after random 223.377 GiB/101.293s 1.010 GiB/4.790s stride1021 204.214 GiB/97.557s 204.208 GiB/108.086s stride2053 409.584 GiB/193.700s 0.970 GiB/3.685s stride4099 406.452 GiB/134.241s 0.975 GiB/3.499s sequential 0.212 GiB/0.050s 0.212 GiB/0.057s For the 4 GiB fit-in-memory case: workload before after random 3.987 GiB/1.960s 0.980 GiB/1.221s stride1021 4.002 GiB/1.838s 4.002 GiB/1.851s stride2053 3.991 GiB/1.835s 0.811 GiB/0.985s stride4099 4.001 GiB/1.836s 0.819 GiB/1.037s sequential 0.056 GiB/0.013s 0.056 GiB/0.018s The 20 GiB setup also has an ablation. P1 is only the faulting-address hit accounting change. P2-only is only the FAULT_FLAG_TRIED retry filter. P1+P2 is the combined accounting change: workload variant result random baseline 223.377 GiB/101.293s random P1 223.268 GiB/98.481s random P2-only 223.257 GiB/100.091s random P1+P2 1.010 GiB/4.790s stride2053 baseline 409.584 GiB/193.700s stride2053 P1 409.584 GiB/197.645s stride2053 P2-only 15.722 GiB/5.485s stride2053 P1+P2 0.970 GiB/3.685s sequential baseline 0.212 GiB/0.050s sequential P1 0.212 GiB/0.046s sequential P2-only 0.212 GiB/0.050s sequential P1+P2 0.212 GiB/0.057s After the v2 implementation refactor, only the final P1+P2 shape was rerun in the same setup. The numbers stayed in line with the v1 P1+P2 rows above: workload larger-than-memory case fit-in-memory case 20 GiB file, 1% access 4 GiB file, 1% access random 1.010 GiB/4.383s 0.980 GiB/1.088s stride1021 204.216 GiB/105.601s 4.001 GiB/1.783s stride2053 0.970 GiB/3.760s 0.810 GiB/0.908s stride4099 0.975 GiB/3.410s 0.818 GiB/0.870s sequential 0.212 GiB/0.060s 0.056 GiB/0.016s This does not claim to solve every sparse pattern. The stride1021 rows are intentionally shown as a boundary: with 8192 KiB read_ahead_kb, file->f_ra.ra_pages is 2048 base pages, and synchronous mmap read-around uses a 2048-page window centered around the fault, roughly [index - 1024, index + 1023]. stride1021 is 1021 * 4 KiB = 4084 KiB, so the next access lands inside the previous read-around window. About every other access can be a real faulting-address page-cache hit, and the other half can each read about 8 MiB. For about 52k accesses in the 20 GiB/1% run, half of them times 8 MiB is about 205 GiB, matching the observed 204 GiB. This patch (of 2): filemap_map_pages() reduces file->f_ra.mmap_miss when fault-around maps folios that are already present in the page cache. That hit accounting is too generous because fault-around can install PTEs around the faulting address even though the fault only proves that the faulting address was accessed. Move the mmap_miss update back into filemap_map_pages(), drop the mmap_miss argument from the helper functions, and decrement mmap_miss only when the helper return value shows that the faulting address was mapped. Keep the existing workingset-folio behavior unchanged. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_AA501E9A238337BD167E5C2ACF948A1AF308@qq.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_756F151FE66F3D80479A6F982C0AB8569F09@qq.com Signed-off-by: fujunjie <fujunjie1@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/13149be4f8151e18eb5f1eb4f3241ab3cffb373e.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/aafc2d660057a91eb40417f8ff4645b0a8c525e2.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b0fceedca37139da36aa626ac72eb9840b641021.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. This also allows to return directly from the loop, removing the 'ret' variable. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/a981721632a981f148c63e3f7df3d1116a0c3f6d.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave scoped lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. The scoped variant is used to keep dump_page() outside the locked section to avoid a lockdep splat. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6883351ad7f74d20875fff30e0e3214a089cea97.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock() to replace the explicit lock/unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/69db814cd178915cb5615334a29304678f960963.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Use spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate() to replace the explicit lock/unlock and goto pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/815c0905ea77828ed32bf56ff0a6d3c6548eb3a2.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: use zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock()Dmitry Ilvokhin
Patch series "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock", v3. This series uses spinlock guard for zone lock across several mm functions to replace explicit lock/unlock patterns with automatic scope-based cleanup. This simplifies the control flow by removing 'flags' variables, goto labels, and redundant unlock calls. Patches are ordered by decreasing value. The first six patches simplify the control flow by removing gotos, multiple unlock paths, or 'ret' variables. The last two are simpler lock/unlock pair conversions that only remove 'flags' and can be dropped if considered unnecessary churn. Binary size increase is +39 bytes, with Peter Zijlstra's fix for guards [1] applied. This is due to the compiler not being able to deduplicate epilogue and eliminate redundant NULL check. See discussion [2] for more details. I proposed a patch [3] that fixes this, but until it is merged we need to assume +39 bytes will stay (though it is compiler dependent). This patch (of 8): Use the spinlock_irqsave zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock() to replace the explicit lock/unlock and goto out_unlock pattern with automatic scope-based cleanup. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3657e1144e2ffc1ca0eb57d57d89bfec4073d8c6.1777462630.git.d@ilvokhin.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309164516.GE606826@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afC5C6fylF4AsITV@shell.ilvokhin.com/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260427165037.205337-1-d@ilvokhin.com/ [3] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/ABI/damon: mark schemes/<S>/filters/ deprecatedSeongJae Park
Now the 'filters/' directory is deprecated. Update ABI document to also announce the fact. Also update the descriptions of the files to be based on 'core_filter/' directory, to make the old descriptions ready to be removed when the time arrives. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429150309.82282-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mark scheme filters sysfs dir as deprecatedSeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated". Commit ab71d2d30121 ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: let damon_sysfs_scheme_set_filters() be used for different named directories") introduced alternatives of 'filters' directory, namely core_filters/ and 'ops_filters/ directories. Now the alternatives are well stabilized and ready for all users. All filters/ directory use cases are expected to be able to be migrated to the alternatives. An LTS kernel having the alternatives, namely 6.18.y, is also released. Existence of filters/ directory is only confusing. It would be better not immediately removing the directory, though. There could be users that need time before migrating to the alternatives. There might be unexpected use cases that the alternatives cannot support. Doing the deprecation step by step across multiple years like DAMON debugfs deprecation would be safer. Start the deprecation changes by announcing the deprecation on the documents. Every year, one more action for completely removing the directory will be followed, like DAMON debugfs deprecation did. Following yearly actions are currently expected. In 2027, deprecation warning kernel messages will be printed once, for use of filters/ directory. In 2028, filters/ directory will be renamed to filters_DEPRECATED/. In 2029, filters_DEPRECATED/ directory will be removed. This patch (of 2): The alternatives of 'filters/' directory, namely 'core_filters/' and 'ops_filters/', can fully support all the features 'filters/' directory can do, and provide better user experience. Having 'filters/' directory is only confusing to users. Announce it as deprecated on the usage document. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429150309.82282-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429150309.82282-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/khugepaged: return -EAGAIN for SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE in MADV_COLLAPSEVineet Agarwal
MADV_COLLAPSE uses errno values to provide actionable feedback to userspace. Temporary resource constraints are mapped to -EAGAIN so the caller may retry, while intrinsic failures of the specified range are mapped to -EINVAL. collapse_file() returns SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE when filemap_release_folio() fails while isolating file-backed folios for collapse. This currently falls through the default case in madvise_collapse_errno() and is reported to userspace as -EINVAL. However, filemap_release_folio() failure commonly reflects temporary folio state rather than a permanently uncollapsible range. For example, ext4 returns false when a folio still has dirty journalled data, btrfs returns false for dirty or writeback folios before extent state release, and NFS may return false while reclaiming filesystem-private folio state. In such cases, retrying MADV_COLLAPSE after writeback, reclaim or journal progress may succeed. This matches the existing -EAGAIN handling for SCAN_PAGE_DIRTY_OR_WRITEBACK and other transient collapse failures more closely than -EINVAL. Therefore, map SCAN_PAGE_HAS_PRIVATE to -EAGAIN so userspace receives retryable feedback for this temporary failure path. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429140434.439456-1-agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vineet Agarwal <agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/mm: khugepaged: initialize file contents via mmapVineet Agarwal
file_setup_area() currently allocates anonymous memory, fills it, and writes it into the backing file used for collapse testing. Instead of copying data through write(), resize the file with ftruncate(), map it directly with MAP_SHARED, and initialize the mapped area in place. This simplifies the setup path and avoids the need for explicit partial write handling. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429115816.98824-1-agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vineet Agarwal <agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort: update for entire memory monitoringSeongJae Park
Update DAMON_LRU_SORT usage document for the changed default monitoring target region selection. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: update for entire memory monitoringSeongJae Park
Update DAMON_RECLAIM usage document for the changed default monitoring target region selection. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/stat: use damon_set_region_system_rams_default()SeongJae Park
damon_stat_set_moniotirng_region() is nearly a duplicate of the core function, damon_set_region_system_rams_default(). Use the core implementation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/core: remove damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default()SeongJae Park
Now nobody is using damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default(). Remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/lru_sort: cover all system ramsSeongJae Park
DAMON_LRU_SORT allows users to set the physical address range to monitor and do the work on. When users don't explicitly set the range, the biggest system ram resource of the system is selected as the monitoring target address range. The intention was to reduce the overhead from monitoring non-System RAM areas because monitoring non-System RAM may be meaningless. However, because of the sampling based access check and adaptive regions adjustment, the overhead should be negligible. It makes more sense to just cover all system rams of the system. Do so. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/reclaim: cover all system ramsSeongJae Park
DAMON_RECLAIM allows users to set the physical address range to monitor and do the work on. When users don't explicitly set the range, the biggest System RAM resource of the system is selected as the monitoring target address range. The intention was to reduce the overhead from monitoring non-System RAM areas because monitoring of non-System RAM may be meaningless. However, because of the sampling based access check and adaptive regions adjustment, the overhead should be negligible. It makes more sense to just cover all system rams of the system. Do so. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon: introduce damon_set_region_system_rams_default()SeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default". DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT set the biggest 'System RAM' resource of the system as the default monitoring target address range. The main intention behind the design is to minimize the overhead coming from monitoring of non-System RAM areas. This could result in an odd setup when there are multiple discrete System RAMs of considerable sizes. For example, there are System RAMs each having 500 GiB size. In this case, only the first 500 GiB will be set as the monitoring region by default. This is particularly common on NUMA systems. Hence the modules allow users to set the monitoring target address range using the module parameters if the default setup doesn't work for them. In other words, the current design trades ease of setup for lower overhead. However, because DAMON utilizes the sampling based access check and the adaptive regions adjustment mechanisms, the overhead from the monitoring of non-System RAM areas should be negligible in most setups. Meanwhile, the setup complexity is causing real headaches for users who need to run those modules on various types of systems. That is, the current tradeoff is not a good deal. Set the physical address range that can cover all System RAM areas of the system as the default monitoring regions for DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT. Technically speaking, this is changing documented behavior. However, it makes no sense to believe there is a real use case that really depends on the old weird default behavior. If the old default behavior was working for them in the reasonable way, this change will only add a negligible amount of monitoring overhead. If it didn't work, the users may already be using manual monitoring regions setup, and they will not be affected by this change. Patches Sequence ================ Patch 1 introduces a new core function that will be used for the new default monitoring target region setup. Patch 2 and 3 update DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to use the new function instead of the old one, respectively. Patch 4 removes the old core function that was replaced by the new one, as there is no more user of it. Patch 5 updates DAMON_STAT to use the new one instead of its in-house nearly-duplicate self implementation of the functionality. Finally patches 6 and 7 update the DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT user documentation for the new behaviors, respectively. This patch (of 7): damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default() sets the monitoring target region as the caller requested. If the caller didn't specify the region, it finds the biggest System RAM of the system and sets it as the target region. When there are more than one considerable size of System RAM resources in the system, the default target setup makes no sense. Introduce a variant, namely damon_set_region_system_rams_default(). It sets a physical address range that covers all System RAM resources as the default target region. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: skip KASAN tagging for page-allocated page tablesMuhammad Usama Anjum
Page tables are always accessed via the linear mapping with a match-all tag, so HW-tag KASAN never checks them. For page-allocated tables (PTEs and PGDs etc), avoid the tag setup and poisoning overhead by using __GFP_SKIP_KASAN. SLUB-backed page tables are unchanged for now. (They aren't widely used and require more SLUB related skip logic. Leave it later.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-4-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacksMuhammad Usama Anjum
HW-tag KASAN never checks kernel stacks because stack pointers carry the match-all tag, so setting/poisoning tags is pure overhead. - Add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to THREADINFO_GFP so every stack allocator that uses it skips tagging (fork path plus arch users) - Add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to GFP_VMAP_STACK for the fork-specific vmap stacks. - When reusing cached vmap stacks, skip kasan_unpoison_range() if HW tags are enabled. Software KASAN is unchanged; this only affects tag-based KASAN. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-3-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28vmalloc: add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN supportMuhammad Usama Anjum
Patch series "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables", v4. Stacks and page tables are always accessed with the match-all tag, so assigning a new random tag every time at allocation and setting invalid tag at deallocation time, just adds overhead without improving the detection. With __GFP_SKIP_KASAN the page keeps its poison tag and KASAN_TAG_KERNEL (match-all tag) is stored in the page flags while keeping the poison tag in the hardware. The benefit of it is that 256 tag setting instruction per 4 kB page aren't needed at allocation and deallocation time. Thus match-all pointers still work, while non-match tags (other than poison tag) still fault. __GFP_SKIP_KASAN only skips for KASAN_HW_TAGS mode, so coverage is unchanged. Benchmark: The benchmark has two modes. In thread mode, the child process forks and creates N threads. In pgtable mode, the parent maps and faults a specified memory size and then forks repeatedly with children exiting immediately. Thread benchmark: 2000 iterations, 2000 threads: 2.575 s → 2.229 s (~13.4% faster) The pgtable samples: - 2048 MB, 2000 iters 19.08 s → 17.62 s (~7.6% faster) This patch (of 3): For allocations that will be accessed only with match-all pointers (e.g., kernel stacks), setting tags is wasted work. If the caller already set __GFP_SKIP_KASAN, skip tag setting of vmalloc pages. Before this patch, __GFP_SKIP_KASAN wasn't being used with vmalloc APIs. So it wasn't being checked. Now its being checked and acted upon. Other KASAN modes are unchanged because __GFP_SKIP_KASAN is ignored for them in the page allocator, and in vmalloc too we ignore this flag for them. This is a preparatory patch for optimizing kernel stack allocations. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-1-dev.jain@arm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-2-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/memcontrol: hoist pstatc_pcpu assignment out of CPU loopHui Zhu
In mem_cgroup_alloc(), the assignment of pstatc_pcpu is invariant with respect to the for_each_possible_cpu() loop: both the 'parent' pointer and 'parent->vmstats_percpu' remain constant throughout all iterations. The original code redundantly re-evaluated the 'if (parent)' condition and reassigned pstatc_pcpu on every CPU iteration, then repeated the same ternary check 'parent ? pstatc_pcpu : NULL' when storing into statc->parent_pcpu. Move the single conditional assignment of pstatc_pcpu to before the loop, resolving both the loop-invariant placement issue and the duplicated null check. On systems with a large number of possible CPUs, this eliminates repeated branch evaluation with no functional change. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429084216.186238-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/migrate: rename PAGE_ migration flags to FOLIO_Shivank Garg
These flags only track folio-specific state during migration and are not used for movable_ops pages. Rename the enum values and the old_page_state variable to match. No functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260324190706.964555-4-shivankg@amd.com Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/damon/sysfs.py: pause DAMON before dumping statusSeongJae Park
The sysfs.py test commits DAMON parameters, dump the internal DAMON state, and show if the parameters are committed as expected using the dumped state. While the dumping is ongoing, DAMON is alive. It can make internal changes including addition and removal of regions. It can therefore make a race that can result in false test results. Pause DAMON execution during the state dumping to avoid such races. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/damon/sysfs.py: check pause on assert_ctx_committed()SeongJae Park
Extend sysfs.py tests to confirm damon_ctx->pause can be set using the pause sysfs file. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/damon/drgn_dump_damon_status: dump pauseSeongJae Park
drgn_dump_damon_status is not dumping the damon_ctx->pause parameter value, so it cannot be tested. Dump it for future tests. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: support pause file stagingSeongJae Park
DAMON test-purpose sysfs interface control Python module, _damon_sysfs, is not supporting the newly added pause file. Add the support of the file, for future test and use of the feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test pause commitmentSeongJae Park
Add a kunit test for commitment of damon_ctx->pause parameter that can be done using damon_commit_ctx(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/ABI/damon: update for pause sysfs fileSeongJae Park
Update DAMON ABI document for the DAMON context execution pause/resume feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for pause fileSeongJae Park
Update DAMON usage document for the DAMON context execution pause/resume feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28Docs/mm/damon/design: update for context pause/resume featureSeongJae Park
Update DAMON design document for the context execution pause/resume feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/sysfs: add pause file under context dirSeongJae Park
Add pause DAMON sysfs file under the context directory. It exposes the damon_ctx->pause API parameter to the users so that they can use the pause/resume feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon/core: introduce damon_ctx->pausedSeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed", v2. DAMON utilizes a few mechanisms that enhance itself over time. Adaptive regions adjustment, goal-based DAMOS quota auto-tuning and monitoring intervals auto-tuning like self-training mechanisms are such examples. It also adds access frequency stability information (age) to the monitoring results, which makes it enhanced over time. Sometimes users have to stop DAMON. In this case, DAMON internal state that enhanced over the time of the last execution simply goes away. Restarted DAMON have to train itself and enhance its output from the scratch. This makes DAMON less useful in such cases. Introducing three such use cases below. Investigation of DAMON. It is best to do the investigation online, especially when it is a production environment. DAMON therefore provides features for such online investigations, including DAMOS stats, monitoring result snapshot exposure, and multiple tracepoints. When those are insufficient, and there are additional clues that could be interfered by DAMON, users have to temporarily stop DAMON to collect the additional clues. It is not very useful since many of DAMON internal clues are gone when DAMON is stopped. The loss of the monitoring results that improved over time is also problematic, especially in production environments. Monitoring of workloads that have different user-known phases. For example, in Android, applications are known to have very different access patterns and behaviors when they are running on the foreground and the background. It can therefore be useful to separate monitoring of apps based on whether they are running on the foreground and on the background. Having two DAMON threads per application that paused and resumed for the apps foreground/background switches can be useful for the purpose. But such pause/resume of the execution is not supported. Tests of DAMON. A few DAMON selftests are using drgn to dump the internal DAMON status. The tests show if the dumped status is the same as what the test code expected. Because DAMON keeps running and modifying its internal status, there are chances of data races that can cause false test results. Stopping DAMON can avoid the race. But, since the internal state of DAMON is dropped, the test coverage will be limited. Let DAMON execution be paused and resumed without loss of the internal state, to overhaul the limitations. For this, introduce a new DAMON context parameter, namely 'pause'. API callers can update it while the context is running, using the online parameters update functions (damon_commit_ctx() and damon_call()). Once it is set, kdamond_fn() main loop will do only limited works excluding the monitoring and DAMOS works, while sleeping sampling intervals per the work. The limited works include handling of the online parameters update. Hence users can unset the 'pause' parameter again. Once it is unset, kdamond_fn() main loop will do all the work again (resumed). Under the paused state, it also does stop condition checks and handling of it, so that paused DAMON can also be stopped if needed. Expose the feature to the user space via DAMON sysfs interface. Also, update existing drgn-based tests to test and use the feature. Tests ===== I confirmed the feature functionality using real time tracing ('perf trace' or 'trace-cmd stream') of damon:damon_aggregated DAMON tracepoint. By pausing and resuming the DAMON execution, I was able to see the trace stops and continued as expected. Note that the pause feature support is added to DAMON user-space tool (damo) after v3.1.9. Users can use '--pause_ctx' command line option of damo for that, and I actually used it for my test. The extended drgn-based selftests are also testing a part of the functionality. Patches Sequence ================ Patch 1 introduces the new core API for the pause feature. Patch 2 extend DAMON sysfs interface for the new parameter. Patches 3-5 update design, usage and ABI documents for the new sysfs file, respectively. The following five patches are for tests. Patch 6 implements a new kunit test for the pause parameter online commitment. Patches 7 and 8 extend DAMON selftest helpers to support the new feature. Patch 9 extends selftest to test the commitment of the feature. Finally, patch 10 updates existing selftest to be safe from the race condition using the pause/resume feature. This patch (of 10): DAMON supports only start and stop of the execution. When it is stopped, its internal data that it self-trained goes away. It will be useful if the execution can be paused and resumed with the previous self-trained data. Introduce per-context API parameter, 'paused', for the purpose. The parameter can be set and unset while DAMON is running and paused, using the online parameters commit helper functions (damon_commit_ctx() and damon_call()). Once 'paused' is set, the kdamond_fn() main loop does only limited works with sampling interval sleep during the works. The limited works include the handling of the online parameters update, so that users can unset the 'pause' and resume the execution when they want. It also keep checking DAMON stop conditions and handling of it, so that DAMON can be stopped while paused if needed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427151231.113429-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: limit filemap_fault readahead to VMA boundariesFrederick Mayle
When a file mapping covers a strict subset of a file, an access to the mapping can trigger readahead of file pages outside the mapped region. Readahead is meant to prefetch pages likely to be accessed soon, but these pages aren't accessible via the same means, so it fair to say we don't have a good indicator they'll be accessed soon. Take an ELF file for example: an access to the end of a program's read-only segment isn't a sign that nearby file contents will be accessed next (they are likely to be mapped discontiguously, or not at all). The pressure from loading these pages into the cache can evict more useful pages. To improve the behavior, make three changes: * Introduce a new readahead_control field, max_index, as a hard limit on the readahead. The existing file_ra_state->size can't be used as a limit, it is more of a hint and can be increased by various heuristics. * Set readahead_control->max_index to the end of the VMA in all of the readahead paths that can be triggered from a fault on a file mapping (both "sync" and "async" readahead). * Limit the read-around range start to the VMA's start. Note that these changes only affect readahead triggered in the context of a fault, they do not affect readahead triggered by read syscalls. If a user mixes the two types of accesses, the behavior is expected to be the following: if a fault causes readahead and places a PG_readahead marker and then a read(2) syscall hits the PG_readahead marker, the resulting async readahead *will not* be limited to the VMA end. Conversely, if a read(2) syscall places a PG_readahead marker and then a fault hits the marker, the async readahead *will* be limited to the VMA end. There is an edge case that the above motivation glosses over: A single file mapping might be backed by multiple VMAs. For example, a whole file could be mapped RW, then part of the mapping made RO using mprotect. This patch would hurt performance of a sequential faulted read of such a mapping, the degree depending on how fragmented the VMAs are. A usage pattern like that is likely rare and already suffering from sub-optimal performance because, e.g., the fragmented VMAs limit the fault-around, so each VMA boundary in a sequential faulted read would cause a minor fault. Still, this patch would make it worse. See a previous discussion of this topic at [1]. Tested by mapping and reading a small subset of a large file, then using the cachestat syscall to verify the number of cached pages didn't exceed the mapping size. In practical scenarios, the effect depends on the specific file and usage. Sometimes there is no effect at all, but, for some ELF files in Android, we see ~20% fewer pages pulled into the cache. A comprehensive performance evaluation hasn't been done, but, in addition to the anecdontal memory savings mentioned above, a benchmark was run with fio 3.38, showing neutral looking results: /data/local/tmp/fio --version fio --name=mmap_test --ioengine=mmap --rw=read --bs=4k \ --offset=1G --size=1G --filesize=3G --numjobs=1 \ --filename=testfile.bin Before: 4366.6 MiB/s (avg of 3459, 4592, 4613, 4697, 4472) After: 4444.0 MiB/s (avg of 4633, 4655, 4511, 4571, 3850) +1.7% Same, with --ioengine=mmap --rw=randread Before: 445.6 MiB/s (avg of 446, 447, 442, 452, 441) After: 447.0 MiB/s (avg of 447, 446, 446, 451, 445) +0.3% Same, with --ioengine=psync --rw=read Before: 3086.6 MiB/s (avg of 3122, 3094, 3066, 3094, 3057) After: 3084.6 MiB/s (avg of 3039, 3103, 3103, 3084, 3094) -0.06% Same, with --ioengine=psync --rw=randread Before: 2226.4 MiB/s (avg of 2256, 2183, 2207, 2265, 2221) After: 2231.4 MiB/s (avg of 2236, 2241, 2236, 2193, 2251) +0.2% Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427030148.653228-1-fmayle@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ivnv2crd3et76p2nx7oszuqhzzah756oecn5yuykzqfkqzoygw@yvnlkhjjssoz/ [1] Signed-off-by: Frederick Mayle <fmayle@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/madvise: reject invalid process_madvise() advice for zero-length vectorsfujunjie
process_madvise() used to validate the advice while walking each imported iovec. If the vector has zero total length, vector_madvise() does not enter the loop and can return success without checking whether the advice value is valid. For a local mm, such as process_madvise(PIDFD_SELF, ...), the remote-only process_madvise_remote_valid() check is skipped. As a result, an invalid advice can be reported as success when the vector has zero total length. This differs from madvise(), which rejects an invalid advice before returning success for a zero-length range. Validate the generic madvise behavior at the syscall-facing entry points before any vector walk. In process_madvise(), do this before the remote-only advice restriction so unsupported advice is rejected with the same priority for local and remote mm. Use an errno-returning helper for address/length validation, and handle zero-length ranges explicitly at the call sites. Requests with valid advice and zero total length remain a noop and continue to return 0. Add a selftest that covers invalid advice with a zero-length iovec and an empty vector, while also checking that a request with valid advice and zero length still succeeds. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_C3AEB0E769C5F4F9370F9411B69B7F8B2907@qq.com Fixes: 021781b01275 ("mm/madvise: unrestrict process_madvise() for current process") Signed-off-by: fujunjie <fujunjie1@qq.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm: remove page_mapped()David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Let's replace the last user of page_mapped() by folio_mapped() so we can get rid of page_mapped(). Replace the remaining occurrences of page_mapped() in rmap documentation by folio_mapped(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-3-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28bpf: arena: use page_ref_count() instead of page_mapped() in arena_free_pages()David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Pages that BPF arena code maps are allocated through bpf_map_alloc_pages(), which does not allocate folios but pages. In the future, pages will not have a mapcount, only folios will. Converting the code to use folios and rely on folio_mapped() sounds like the wrong approach. Should BPF arena code allocate folios and use folio_mapped() here? But likely we would not want to use folios here longterm, as we don't really need folio information. Hard to tell. But in the meantime, we can simply use the page refcount instead, as a heuristic whether the page might be mapped to user space and we would want to try zapping it, so we can get rid of page_mapped(). Page allocation will give us a page with a refcount of 1. Any user space mapping adds a page reference. While there can be references from other subsystems (e.g., GUP), in the common case for this test here relying on the page count is good enough. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-2-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28sh: use folio_mapped() instead of page_mapped() in sh4_flush_cache_page()David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Patch series "mm: remove page_mapped()". While preparing my slides for an LSF/MM talk, I realized that I did not yet remove page_mapped(). So let's do that. In the BPF arena code it's unclear which memdesc we would want to allocate in the future: certainly something with a refcount, but likely none with a mapcount. So let's just rely on the page refcount instead to decide whether we want to try zapping the page from user page tables. This patch (of 3): We already have the folio in our hands, so let's just use folio_mapped(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-0-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-1-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon: support MADV_COLLAPSE via DAMOS_COLLAPSE scheme actionAsier Gutierrez
This patch set introces a new action: DAMOS_COLLAPSE. For DAMOS_HUGEPAGE and DAMOS_NOHUGEPAGE to work, khugepaged should be working, since it relies on hugepage_madvise to add a new slot. This slot should be picked up by khugepaged and eventually collapse (or not, if we are using DAMOS_NOHUGEPAGE) the pages. If THP is not enabled, khugepaged will not be working, and therefore no collapse will happen. DAMOS_COLLAPSE eventually calls madvise_collapse, which will collapse the address range synchronously. In cases where there is a large VMA (databases, for example), DAMOS_COLLAPSE allows us to collapse only the hot region, and not the entire VMA. This new action may be required to support autotuning with hugepage as a goal[1]. ========= Benchmarks: ========= MySQL ===== Tests were performed in an ARM physical server with MariaDB 10.5 and sysbench. Read only benchmark was perform with gaussian row hitting, which follows a normal distribution. T n, D h: THP set to never, DAMON action set to hugepage T m, D h: THP set to madvise, DAMON action set to hugepage T n, D c: THP set to never, DAMON action set to collapse Memory consumption. Lower is better. +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | | T n, D h | T m, D h | T n, D c | +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | Total memory use | 2.13 | 2.20 | 2.20 | | Huge pages | 0 | 1.3 | 1.27 | +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ Performance in TPS (Transactions Per Second). Higher is better. T n, D h: 18225.58 T m, D h 18252.93 T n, D c: 18270.21 Performance counter I got the number of L1 D/I TLB accesses and the number a D/I TLB accesses that triggered a page walk. I divided the second by the first to get the percentage of page walkes per TLB access. The lower the better. +---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+ | | T n, D h | T m, D h | T n, D c | +---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+ | L1 DTLB | 127248242753 | 125431020479 | 125327001821 | | L1 ITLB | 80332558619 | 79346759071 | 79298139590 | | DTLB walk | 75011087 | 52800418 | 55895794 | | ITLB walk | 71577076 | 71505137 | 67262140 | | DTLB % misses | 0.058948623 | 0.042095183 | 0.044599961 | | ITLB % misses | 0.089100954 | 0.090117275 | 0.084821839 | +---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+ Masim ===== I used masim with the "demo" configuration, but changing the times to 100 seconds for the initial phase and 50 seconds for the rest of the phases. Memory consumption: +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | | T n, D h | T m, D h | T n, D c | +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | Total memory use | 2.38 GB | 2.36 GB | 2.37 GB | | Huge pages | 0 | 190 MB | 188 MB | +------------------+----------+----------+----------+ Performance: THP never, DAMOS_HUGEPAGE initial phase: 40,491 accesses/msec, 100001 msecs run low phase 0: 39,658 accesses/msec, 50002 msecs run high phase 0: 41,678 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run low phase 1: 39,625 accesses/msec, 50003 msecs run high phase 1: 41,658 accesses/msec, 50002 msecs run low phase 2: 39,642 accesses/msec, 50002 msecs run high phase 2: 41,640 accesses/msec, 50001 msecs run THP madvise, DAMOS_HUGEPAGE initial phase: 51,977 accesses/msec, 100000 msecs run low phase 0: 86,953 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run high phase 0: 94,812 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run low phase 1: 101,017 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run high phase 1: 94,841 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run low phase 2: 100,993 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run high phase 2: 94,791 accesses/msec, 50001 msecs run THP never, DAMOS_COLLAPSE initial phase: 93,678 accesses/msec, 100001 msecs run low phase 0: 101,475 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run high phase 0: 98,589 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run low phase 1: 101,531 accesses/msec, 50001 msecs run high phase 1: 98,506 accesses/msec, 50001 msecs run low phase 2: 101,458 accesses/msec, 50001 msecs run high phase 2: 98,555 accesses/msec, 50000 msecs run Memory consumption dynamic (how quickly collapses occur): It shows in seconds how many huge pages are allocated. +----+----------+----------+ | | T m, D h | T n, D c | +----+----------+----------+ | 5 | 32 | 188 | | 10 | 48 | 188 | | 15 | 64 | 188 | | 20 | 96 | 188 | | 30 | 112 | 188 | | 35 | 144 | 188 | | 40 | 160 | 188 | | 45 | 190 | 188 | | 50 | 190 | 188 | | 55 | 190 | 188 | | 60 | 190 | 188 | +----+----------+----------+ ========= - We can see that DAMOS "hugepage" action works only when THP is set to madvise. "collapse" action works even when THP is set to never. - Performance for "collapse" action is slightly lower than "hugepage" action and THP madvise. This is due to the fact that collapases occur synchronously. With "hugepage" they may occur during page faults. - Memory consumption is slighly lower for "collapse" than "hugepage" with THP madvise. This is due to the khugepage collapses all VMAs, while "collapse" action only collapses the VMAs in the hot region. - There is an improvement in TLB utilization when collapse through "hugepage" or "collapse" actions are triggered. The amount of TLB misses is lower. - "collapse" action is performance synchronously, which means that page collapses happen earlier and more rapidly. This can be useful or not, depending on the scenario. - "hugepage" action may trigger a VMA split in some scenarios, since it needs to change the flag of the VMA to THP enabled. This may lead to additional overhead. Collapse action just adds a new option to chose the correct system balance. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260426231619.107231-5-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20260313000816.79933-1-sj@kernel.org/ [1] Signed-off-by: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Cheng-Han Wu <hank20010209@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/damon: add synchronous commit for commit_inputsLiew Rui Yan
Problem ======= Writing invalid parameters to sysfs followed by 'commit_inputs=Y' fails silently (no error returned to shell), because the validation happens asynchronously in the kdamond. Solution ======== To fix this, the commit_inputs_store() callback now uses damon_call() to synchronously commit parameters in the kdamond thread's safe context. This ensures that validation errors are returned immediately to userspace, following the pattern used by DAMON_SYSFS. Changes ======= 1. Added commit_inputs_store() and commit_inputs_fn() to commit synchronously. 2. Removed handle_commit_inputs(). This change is motivated from another discussion [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260426231619.107231-4-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260318153731.97470-1-aethernet65535@gmail.com [1] Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com> Cc: Cheng-Han Wu <hank20010209@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>