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2026-08-04mm: drop stale folio_ref_count()==1 check in do_swap_page reuse logicBarry Song (Xiaomi)
The "we just allocated them without exposing them to the swapcache" case no longer exists, as Kairui has routed synchronous I/O through the swapcache as well in his series "unify swapin use swap cache and cleanup flags"[1]. As a result, folio_ref_count() should never be 1 in this path, since at least two references are held (base ref plus swapcache). Remove the folio_ref_count()==1 check and update the comment accordingly. The ksm_might_need_to_copy() check may allocate a fresh folio with folio_ref_count() == 1. Along that path, exclusive has already been set to true, so the folio can still be reused correctly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, per David] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3a185a5d-2f2c-4e9d-9cd9-8bdb236dfc5c@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260701235955.36126-3-baohua@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251220-swap-table-p2-v5-0-8862a265a033@tencent.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> 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: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm: avoid unnecessary lru drain for wp_can_reuse_anon_folio()Barry Song (Xiaomi)
Patch series "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths", v3. We are doing a large number of redundant lru_add_drain() calls in both wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page(), leading to LRU lock contention and unnecessary overhead. In wp_can_reuse_anon_folio(), we can check the refcount against the lru_cache before deciding to drain. In do_swap_page(), the drain is now entirely redundant after Kairui's work to route SYNC I/O through the swapcache in the same way as ASYNC I/O. Build the kernel within a 1 GB memcg using 20 threads with zRAM swap. The number of lru_add_drain() calls is reduced from 276,278 to 226,318, a reduction of about 18%. Build the kernel within an 800 MB memcg using 20 threads with zRAM swap. The number of lru_add_drain() calls is reduced from 778,950 to 541,149, a reduction of 30.5%. This patch (of 4): There is a case where `folio_ref_count(folio) == 3` and `!folio_test_swapcache(folio)`. In that case, both `folio_ref_count(folio) > 3` and `folio_ref_count(folio) > 1 + folio_test_swapcache(folio)` evaluate false, causing an unnecessary local LRU drain. During an Ubuntu boot, I observed over 5,000 redundant local LRU drains. For a kernel build with a minimal configuration, I observed more than 20,000 redundant drains. Fix this by checking against: `1 + in_swapcache + in_lrucache` instead of hardcoding `folio_ref_count(folio) > 3`. [baohua@kernel.org: rename in_lru_cache to maybe_in_lru_cache] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708145718.82690-1-baohua@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260701235955.36126-1-baohua@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260701235955.36126-2-baohua@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> 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: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/page_alloc: remove set_page_private() in prep_compound_tail()Zi Yan
Tail pages are expected to have (and optionally be checked) zeroed ->private when they are freed. It stays true during subsequent reallocation, so replace the tail_page->private initialization with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in compound page preparation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-5-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/page_alloc: make sure tail_page->private is zero at page free timeZi Yan
Any code using tail_page->private of a folio, a compound page or a high-order page is supposed to reset it after use, otherwise ->private data can leak to new page user and cause unexpected issues. Add a bad_page() check at page free path for it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-4-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/huge_memory: add page->private check back in __split_folio_to_order()Zi Yan
page->private should not be set in tail pages. Commit 4265d67e405a ("mm/migrate_device: add THP splitting during migration") removed a DEBUG_VM check without a proper reason[1]. Add it back. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/13f3fcda-7328-4aa5-afc6-75a294a82b2a@nvidia.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-3-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/compaction: stop recording free page order in page->privateZi Yan
Commit 733aea0b3a7bb ("mm/compaction: add support for >0 order folio memory compaction.") stores isolated free pages in an array indexed by free page orders, it is no longer needed to store the order in each page's ->private field. And there is no code using the stored order. Stop doing that. It also prepares for an upcoming change that ensures subpage->private is zero at page free time and the removal of set_page_private(0) from prep_compound_tail(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-2-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/percpu-km: clear page->private before free themZi Yan
Patch series "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split", v3. This patchset makes sure tail_page->private is zero before compound or high-order pages are returned to the allocator. It also checks tail pages that become new folio heads during large folio split, before their private fields are used by new folios. Note on ZONE_DEVICE and DAX page/folio === ZONE_DEVICE and DAX use prep_compound_tail() to reinitialize folios, so tail_page->private was reset before this patchset. There was a concern that after this patchset stale ->private can appear after ZONE_DEVICE/DAX folio initialization. My reasoning is that no code sets ZONE_DEVICE/DAX page->private, so their page->private stays zero all the time. ZONE_DEVICE_PRIVATE page migration only supports anonymous memory without swapcache, so after the migration ->private remains zero. But let me know if my reasoning is wrong. It can be fixed by adding ->private zeroing code in ZONE_DEVICE/DAX folio initialization code. Motivation === page->private is zeroed at page free time since commit ac1ea219590c0 ("mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()"), since we concluded that it might be too much to ask every page user to free a page with ->private zeroed. The holder of the last page reference might not know whether ->private needs to be cleared. For compound and high-order pages, tail_page->private can also leak to later users if it is left uncleared. The page allocation path does not zero every tail_page->private field, so they can be seen by new users and cause unexpected issues[1]. Check tail_page->private at page free time, and check tail pages that become new folio heads during large folio split. With those checks in place, prep_compound_tail() no longer needs to clear tail_page->private when preparing compound page metadata. Overview === 1. Patch 1 clears all pages ->private before percpu-km frees them. 2. Patch 2 removes setting page->private in compaction code when a free page is taken out of the buddy allocator. cc->freepages is indexed by page order, so storing the free page order in page->private is redundant. In alloc_contig_frozen_range_noprof(), isolate_freepages_range() is used to grab free pages from buddy allocator and it leaves the aforementioned page->private set until either split_free_frozen_pages() or prep_new_page() is called. That stale value without resetting triggers the tail_page->private nonzero check once set_page_private(0) is removed from prep_compound_tail(). 3. Patch 3 adds back the page->private check for tail pages promoted to new folio heads in __split_folio_to_order(). 4. Patch 4 adds a tail_page->private check in the page free path. 5. Patch 5 removes tail_page->private zeroing from prep_compound_tail(). This patch (of 5): page->private is cleared in free page path. In a subsequent commit, tail_page->private will be checked and ensured to be zero. Clearing percpu-km allocated pages' ->private to prevent triggering warnings later, namely undo what we did in pcpu_create_chunk(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-0-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-1-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260206174017.128673-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04samples/damon/prcl: do not stop DAMON for damon_call() failureSJ Park
damon_call() failure was causing the context to be stopped, but asynchronously by the kdamond thread. To handle the race, the caller had to stop the context. damon_call() is updated to do the stop on its own. Remove the damon_stop() call from the damon_call() error handling. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-12-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04samples/damon/wsse: do not stop ctx for damon_call() failureSJ Park
damon_call() failure was causing the context to be stopped, but asynchronously by the kdamond thread. To handle the race, the caller had to stop the context. damon_call() is updated to do the stop on its own. Remove the damon_stop() call from the damon_call() error handling. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/core: wait ctx stop in damon_call() before reruning an errorSJ Park
damon_call() failure means the DAMON context started its termination. The termination is asynchronously done in kdamond thread. The caller's error handling should handle the race, too. It is complicated and easy to make mistakes. Update damon_call() to ensure the context is stopped in the case, by waiting until the completion is confirmed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04samples/damon/mtier: stop all contexts with single damon_stop() callSJ Park
damon_stop() was theoretically able to return failure while keeping the second context for mtier running. mtier stops its contexts one by one with two damon_stop() call for the reason. damon_stop() is refactored to always successfully stop all requested DAMON contexts. The two calls are unnecessary. Use only single damon_stop() call for all contexts. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/core: change damon_stop() return type to voidSJ Park
damon_stop() always returns 0, and nobody cares. Change the return type to void. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/lru_sort: ignore damon_stop() return valueSJ Park
damon_stop() return value is guaranteed to be 0. Ignore it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/reclaim: ignore damon_stop() return valueSJ Park
damon_stop() return value is guaranteed to be 0. Ignore it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/sysfs: ignore damon_stop() return valueSJ Park
damon_stop() return value is guaranteed to be 0. Ignore it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/core: make damon_stop() never failSJ Park
damon_stop() has no reason to fail. It returns an error code only for possible future changes that can make it fail. Such a change has not been made yet, and this only makes the error handling complicated and confusing. Ensure it returns no error. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04samples/damon/mtier: do not stop first context for damon_start() failureSJ Park
damon_start() was able to fail while keeping the first context running. mtier hence stops the first context in the case. damon_start() is refactored to avoid that. The error handling is no longer necessary. Remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/damon/core: stop ctxs in damon_start() before returning an errorSJ Park
Patch series "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error handling". damon_start() and damon_stop() could leave a few of requested DAMON contexts running when they return an error. damon_commit() failure stops the DAMON context, but in an asynchronous way. Callers should stop the left-over DAMON contexts. It is easy to make mistakes, and indeed a few bugs from such mistakes were found and fixed. Refactor the core API functions to guarantee contexts are completely stopped under failures. Remove the caller side error handlers that are no longer needed due to the refactoring. Patches Sequence ================ Patch 1 refactors damon_start() to ensure all contexts are stopped for failures. Patch 2 updates unnecessary damon_start() error handling from mtier sample module. Patch 3 refactors damon_stop() to always success. Patches 4-6 updates callers (damon_{sysfs,reclaim lru_sort}) to ignore the return value. Patch 7 update damon_stop() return value to void. Patch 8 simplifies damon_stop() error handling in mtier sample module. Patch 9 refactors damon_call() to return errors only after the context is completely stopped. Patches 10 and 11 remove unnecessary error handlings from callers (wsse and prcl sample modules). This patch (of 11): When multiple contexts are passed to damon_start(), the function starts the contexts one by one. If any of the operations fails, it immediately returns an error. Contexts that successfully started before the failure keep running. The caller should catch this and stop the contexts. It is complicated and easy to make mistakes. Stop all contexts in damon_start() under the failures. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706140628.87414-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04selftests/damon: check correct path in ensure_file() not_exist casewang wei
In the ensure_file() function, the "not_exist" code path checks whether $dir exists as a regular file. However, the intent is to verify that the target file ($file) does not exist, not the $dir. Testing $dir makes the existence check effectively useless -- it tests the wrong path and thus never catches the case where the file is unexpectedly present. Replace $dir with $file so the not_exist verification targets the correct path. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706134305.5224-1-a929244872@163.com Signed-off-by: wang wei <a929244872@163.com> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04lib/maple_tree: add missing spaces after switch keywordWatson Wheeler
Add the required space before the opening parenthesis in switch statements to conform to kernel coding style. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260623061730.2024-1-git@tazy.dev Signed-off-by: Watson Wheeler <git@tazy.dev> Reviewed-by: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04percpu: replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in percpu-defs.h header fileThomas Huth
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260619154704.41293-1-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04Documentation: document panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctlBreno Leitao
Add documentation for the new vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl, describing which failures trigger a panic (kernel-owned pages the handler cannot recover) and which are intentionally left out (transient allocator races and unclassified pages). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-5-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pagesBreno Leitao
Add a sysctl panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure (disabled by default) that triggers a kernel panic when memory_failure() encounters pages that cannot be recovered. This provides a clean crash with useful debug information rather than allowing silent data corruption or a delayed crash at an unrelated code path. Panic eligibility is intentionally narrow: only MF_MSG_KERNEL with result == MF_IGNORED panics. After the previous patch, MF_MSG_KERNEL covers PG_reserved pages and the kernel-owned pages promoted from get_hwpoison_page() via -ENOTRECOVERABLE (slab, page tables, large-kmalloc). All other action types are excluded: - MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON and MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER can be reached by transient refcount races with the page allocator (an in-flight buddy allocation has refcount 0 and is no longer on the buddy free list, briefly), and panicking on them would risk killing the box for what is actually a recoverable userspace page. - MF_MSG_UNKNOWN means identify_page_state() could not classify the page; that is precisely the wrong basis for a panic decision. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-4-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for unrecoverable kernel pagesBreno Leitao
The previous patch teaches get_any_page() to return -ENOTRECOVERABLE for stable unhandlable kernel pages (PG_reserved, slab, page tables, large-kmalloc). memory_failure() still folds every negative return into MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON, so callers that want to react to the unrecoverable cases (a panic option, smarter logging) cannot tell them apart from transient page-allocator races. Turn the post-call branch into a switch over the get_hwpoison_page() return code: map -ENOTRECOVERABLE to MF_MSG_KERNEL and any other negative return to MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON. case 0 keeps the existing free-buddy / kernel-high-order handling and case 1 falls through to the rest of memory_failure() unchanged. The MF_MSG_KERNEL label and tracepoint string are kept as "reserved kernel page" to avoid breaking userspace tools that match on those literals; the enum value still adequately tags the failure even though it now also covers slab, page tables and large-kmalloc pages. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-3-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/memory-failure: surface unhandlable kernel pages as -ENOTRECOVERABLEBreno Leitao
get_any_page() collapses every HWPoisonHandlable() rejection into a single -EIO via the __get_hwpoison_page() -> -EBUSY -> shake_page() -> retry path. That is correct for the transient case (a userspace folio briefly off LRU during migration or compaction, which a later shake can drag back), but wrong for stable kernel-owned pages: slab, page-table, large-kmalloc and PG_reserved pages will never become HWPoisonHandlable(), so the retry loop is wasted work and the final -EIO loses the "this is structurally unrecoverable" information. memory_failure() then maps -EIO into MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON, which the panic-on-unrecoverable sysctl deliberately does not act on. Introduce is_kernel_owned_page(), a small predicate that positively identifies pages the hwpoison handler cannot recover from: is_kernel_owned_page(p) := PageReserved(p) || PageSlab(head) || PageTable(head) || PageLargeKmalloc(head) where head = compound_head(p). PG_reserved is a per-page flag (PF_NO_COMPOUND) and is tested on the page directly. The slab, page-table and large-kmalloc page-type bits are only stored on the head page, so those tests resolve the compound head first, then re-read compound_head(page) afterwards: a concurrent split or compound free that moves head invalidates the just-read flags and the loop retries. The lookup still takes no refcount, mirroring the rest of get_any_page(); the recheck closes the common split race, and a residual free->alloc->free in the same window can only mis-tag a genuinely poisoned page, never reclassify a handlable one. No MF_SOFT_OFFLINE / page_has_movable_ops() opt-out is needed: a movable_ops page is always PageOffline or PageZsmalloc, whose page_type is mutually exclusive with slab, page-table and large-kmalloc, and it never carries PG_reserved, so it can never match any of the checks above. The list is intentionally not exhaustive. vmalloc and kernel-stack pages, for example, do not carry a page_type bit and would need a different oracle; they keep going through the existing retry path unchanged. This is the smallest set we can identify with certainty by page type. Wire the helper into the top of get_any_page() to short-circuit those pages before the retry loop runs. On a hit, drop the caller's MF_COUNT_INCREASED reference (if any) and return -ENOTRECOVERABLE straight away. Pages outside the helper's positive list still take the existing retry path and return -EIO, leaving operator-visible behaviour for those cases unchanged. Extend the unhandlable-page pr_err() to fire for either errno and update the get_hwpoison_page() kerneldoc to document the new return. memory_failure() still folds every negative return into MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON via its existing "else if (res < 0)" branch, so this patch on its own only changes the errno that soft_offline_page() can propagate to its callers. A follow-up wires -ENOTRECOVERABLE through memory_failure() and reports MF_MSG_KERNEL for the unrecoverable cases, which is what the panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl observes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-2-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/memory-failure: drop dead error_states[] entry for reserved pagesBreno Leitao
Patch series "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages", v10. A multi-bit ECC error on a kernel-owned page that the memory failure handler cannot recover is currently swallowed: PG_hwpoison is set, the event is logged, and the kernel keeps running. The corrupted memory remains accessible to the kernel and either drives silent data corruption or surfaces seconds-to-minutes later as an apparently unrelated crash. In a large fleet that delayed, unattributable crash turns into significant engineering effort to root-cause; in a kdump configuration, by the time the crash happens the original error context (faulting PFN, MCE/GHES record, page state) is long gone. This series adds an opt-in sysctl, vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure, that converts an unrecoverable kernel-page hwpoison event into an immediate panic with a clean dmesg/vmcore that still contains the original failure context. The default is disabled so existing workloads see no change. There is a selftest that test different cases, and I tested it using the following variants: ┌─────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Variant │ PFN │ Result │ ├─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ rodata │ 0x2600 │ Panic with "Memory failure: 0x2600: unrecoverable page" │ ├─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ slab │ 0x100032 │ Panic with "Memory failure: 0x100032: unrecoverable page" │ ├─────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pgtable │ 0x100000 │ Panic with "Memory failure: 0x100000: unrecoverable page" │ └─────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Each one shows the same call trace, exactly the path the series builds: hard_offline_page_store → memory_failure → action_result → panic("Memory failure: %#lx: unrecoverable page") This patch (of 5): The first entry of error_states[], { reserved, reserved, MF_MSG_KERNEL, me_kernel }, is unreachable. identify_page_state() has two callers, and neither one can dispatch a PG_reserved page to me_kernel(): * memory_failure() reaches identify_page_state() only after get_hwpoison_page() returned 1. get_any_page() reaches that return only via __get_hwpoison_page(), which only takes a refcount when the page is HWPoisonHandlable(). HWPoisonHandlable() is an allowlist for LRU, free-buddy, and (for soft-offline) movable_ops pages -- PG_reserved pages do not satisfy any of these, so they fail with -EBUSY/-EIO long before identify_page_state() runs. * try_memory_failure_hugetlb() reaches identify_page_state() only via the MF_HUGETLB_IN_USED branch, where the page is necessarily a hugetlb folio. hugetlb folios don't carry PG_reserved at that point: hugetlb_folio_init_vmemmap() calls __folio_clear_reserved() during init, so the reserved entry would not match even if it were still present. me_kernel() never executes and the entry exists only to be matched against by code that cannot see it. Drop the entry, the me_kernel() helper, and the now-unused "reserved" macro. Leave the MF_MSG_KERNEL enum value in place: it remains part of the tracepoint and pr_err() string tables, and follow-on work to classify unrecoverable kernel pages can reuse it without churning the user-visible enum. No functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-0-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-1-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04memcg-v1: bail out reclaim when memcg is dyingJiayuan Chen
The legacy memory.limit_in_bytes and memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes writers retry page_counter_set_max() by reclaiming synchronously in the writer context. memory.force_empty similarly loops in synchronous reclaim until the cgroup is empty or reclaim stops making progress. These writes hold a kernfs active reference on the file. If cgroup removal starts in parallel, the remover sets CSS_DYING and then waits in kernfs_drain() under cgroup_mutex for the active reference to drain. Continuing reclaim after the memcg is dying can therefore delay cgroup removal and keep cgroup_mutex held for a long time. Stop the v1 reclaim loops once the memcg is dying. For limit resizing, keep the existing -EBUSY semantics when the new limit could not be installed. For memory.force_empty, keep the existing best-effort success semantics. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-5-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com> Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04memcg: bail out proactive reclaim when memcg is dyingJiayuan Chen
Proactive reclaim via memory.reclaim can run for a long time - swap I/O or thrashing again dominating the latency - and delays cgroup removal in the same way. Mitigate this by stopping the reclaim once memcg_is_dying(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-4-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com> Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04memcg: bail out memory.max when memcg is dyingJiayuan Chen
memory.max has the same high-latency reclaim loop as memory.high, and may additionally invoke the OOM killer on a cgroup that is already going away, further delaying its removal. Mitigate this by bailing out of the loop once memcg_is_dying(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com> Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04memcg: bail out memory.high when memcg is dyingJiayuan Chen
Patch series "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying", v3. This series mitigates a system-wide stall we hit when a cgroup is removed while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim. Problem Description =================== Writing to memory.high, memory.max or memory.reclaim runs reclaim synchronously in the writer's context, looping until the usage drops below the target (or, for memory.reclaim, until the requested amount has been reclaimed). On a large cgroup this can take a long time. The latency is especially bad when reclaim has to perform swap I/O, where it is bound by the swap device write bandwidth, and under thrashing it is effectively unbounded - each round reclaims a few pages that the workload immediately faults back in, so the loop keeps making "progress" and never converges. The legacy (v1) reclaim loops in memory.limit_in_bytes, memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes and memory.force_empty share the same pattern. These writes go through cgroup_file_write(), which does not take cgroup_mutex and does not pin the css. Instead, kernfs guarantees the node (and thus the css) stays alive for the duration of the operation by holding an active reference. So while the reclaim loop runs, the active reference on the file is held. If another task removes the same cgroup in parallel, cgroup_rmdir() takes cgroup_mutex and then blocks in kernfs_drain() waiting for that active reference to drain. Because cgroup_mutex is held throughout the wait, every other task that needs it piles up behind the remover - in our case the whole machine ground to a halt, with hung_task reports for the remover and for unrelated tasks merely reading /proc/<pid>/cgroup: INFO: task cgdelete:366634 blocked for more than 159 seconds. Not tainted 6.6.102+ #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x3da/0x1650 schedule+0x58/0x100 kernfs_drain+0xe6/0x150 __kernfs_remove.part.0+0xd0/0x200 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x75/0xd0 cgroup_addrm_files+0x325/0x410 css_clear_dir+0x50/0xf0 cgroup_destroy_locked+0xdf/0x1e0 cgroup_rmdir+0x2d/0xd0 kernfs_iop_rmdir+0x53/0x90 vfs_rmdir+0x98/0x240 do_rmdir+0x172/0x1b0 __x64_sys_rmdir+0x42/0x70 x64_sys_call+0xeb0/0x2210 do_syscall_64+0x56/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2 INFO: task systemd-journal:2352 blocked for more than 182 seconds. Not tainted 6.6.102+ #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x3da/0x1650 schedule+0x58/0x100 schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x20 __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x3bb/0x640 __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20 mutex_lock+0x3c/0x50 proc_cgroup_show+0x4d/0x380 proc_single_show+0x53/0xe0 seq_read_iter+0x12f/0x4b0 seq_read+0xcd/0x110 vfs_read+0xb1/0x360 ? __seccomp_filter+0x368/0x590 ksys_read+0x73/0x100 __x64_sys_read+0x19/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x18d3/0x2210 do_syscall_64+0x56/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2 The system recovers only once the reclaim finally finishes and releases the active reference. The reclaim itself is pointless here: the cgroup is being torn down and its remaining pages will be reparented to the parent anyway. Even though we check signal_pending(current) in the reclaim loop, the typical symptom is that cat /proc/<pid>/cgroup gets stuck. By the time someone looks for which task is actually stuck in reclaim, the hung task timeout has already been hit. This makes the problem particularly nasty to debug from a hung-task report alone, because the blocked tasks shown are often the victims, not the reclaim writer itself. Our Mitigation ============== cgroup destruction sets CSS_DYING in kill_css_sync() *before* css_clear_dir() triggers the kernfs_drain() that blocks the remover. The in-flight reclaim loop is therefore guaranteed to observe it before starting another reclaim iteration. This series checks memcg_is_dying() in the v2 reclaim loops (memory.high, memory.max and proactive reclaim) and the v1 reclaim loops (memory.limit_in_bytes, memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes and memory.force_empty), and bails out early, so the writer drops the active reference promptly and the remover can make progress. Unlike the no-progress guard (MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES), which only fires when reclaim makes zero progress, the dying check also covers the slow swap I/O and thrashing cases, where reclaim keeps succeeding a little and the loop would otherwise never converge. For memory.reclaim, bailing out because the memcg is dying means the requested reclaim amount was not satisfied, so the write returns -EAGAIN. This is orthogonal to commit c8e6002bd611 ("memcg: introduce non-blocking limit setting option"): O_NONBLOCK lets a caller avoid the synchronous reclaim up front, while this series handles the case where reclaim is already running when the cgroup starts being removed. This patch (of 4): memory.high reclaims synchronously in the writer's context, and the latency can be very high - especially when reclaim performs swap I/O, or under thrashing where the loop may not converge for a long time. While this runs the kernfs active reference on the file is held, so a concurrent removal of the same cgroup blocks in kernfs_drain() under cgroup_mutex until it finishes. Reclaiming a dying cgroup is pointless, as its pages are reparented to the parent anyway. Mitigate this by bailing out of the reclaim loop once memcg_is_dying(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com> Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable in order to pick upAndrew Morton
vmscan.c changes which are required by "memcg: bail out proactive reclaim when memcg is dying".
2026-08-04net/mlx5e: fix BQL reset on SQ re-activationBobby Eshleman
mlx5e_queue_start() deactivates and re-activates all channels but closes only the queue being restarted. mlx5e_activate_txqsq() then unconditionally calls netdev_tx_reset_queue(), zeroing the BQL counters of channels that kept their in-flight TX WQEs. The next completion then over-charges and trips the BUG_ON() in dql_completed(): kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:99! RIP: 0010:dql_completed+0x23d/0x280 Call Trace: <IRQ> mlx5e_poll_tx_cq+0x668/0xa60 mlx5e_napi_poll+0x5b/0x7b0 net_rx_action+0x15a/0x580 Reset BQL only when the SQ has no bytes in flight (sq->cc == sq->pc). In the case that reset is skipped, the outstanding WQEs will eventually complete and rebalance the dql. The dql->limit is carried across the reset. Fixes: b2588ea40ec9 ("net/mlx5e: Implement queue mgmt ops and single channel swap") Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-mlx5-bql-v3-1-a30d4c66fe1d@meta.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: bonding: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in bonding_init()Minhong He
bonding_init() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and still returns success, which can leave the bonding module loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Check the error and unwind prior initialization on failure. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803090012.142638-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: vrf: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in vrf_init_module()Minhong He
vrf_init_module() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and continues module initialization, which can leave VRF loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Check the error and fail module initialization early. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803090002.142453-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: macvlan: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in macvlan_init_module()Minhong He
macvlan_init_module() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and continues module initialization, which can leave macvlan loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Check the error and fail module initialization early. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803085950.142325-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: team: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in team_module_init()Minhong He
team_module_init() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and continues module initialization, which can leave the team module loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Check the error and fail module initialization early. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803085943.142261-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: lapbether: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in ↵Minhong He
lapbeth_init_driver() lapbeth_init_driver() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and always returns success, which can leave the module loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Check the error and remove the packet type on failure. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803085936.142160-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()Minhong He
failover_init() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and always returns success, which can leave the failover module loaded without its netdev notifier registered. Return the notifier registration result directly so module initialization fails when registration fails. This is a future looking check, register_netdevice_notifier() only fails on double registration or if the registered notifier itself returns an error. Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731030338.82508-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04ipv4: nexthop: handle errors in nexthop_init()Minhong He
nexthop_init() ignores errors from register_pernet_subsys() and register_netdevice_notifier(), so a partial initialization can appear successful. Check those steps and unwind prior registrations on failure. Do not check rtnl_register_many(): for built-in code it panics on failure, so the call cannot return an error to nexthop_init(). Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # untested fix to unlikely error path Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731025249.80026-1-heminhong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-05f2fs: fix valid block count leak on data block allocation failureChen Changcheng
In __allocate_data_block(), when allocating a new data block (dn->data_blkaddr == NULL_ADDR), inc_valid_block_count() is called first to increment total_valid_block_count and i_blocks. If the subsequent f2fs_allocate_data_block() fails, the function returns the error directly without rolling back the already-incremented block counts, causing a permanent leak. Fix this by calling dec_valid_block_count() to undo the increment before returning the error. The condition old_blkaddr == NULL_ADDR precisely identifies the case where inc_valid_block_count() was called. Fixes: 7d009e048d7c ("f2fs: fix to handle segment allocation failure correctly") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Changcheng <chenchangcheng@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2026-08-05f2fs: protect critical_task_priority updates with s_umountWenjie Qi
The sysfs store path already takes s_umount for GC thread control entries, and ckpt_thread_ioprio is covered as well. critical_task_priority also updates checkpoint or GC kthread scheduling state, but it is not covered by that serialization. It can race with remount or teardown paths that are stopping those threads. Protect critical_task_priority sysfs writes with s_umount too. Fixes: 52190933c37a ("f2fs: sysfs: introduce critical_task_priority") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2026-08-05f2fs: avoid NULL checkpoint thread access in sysfsWenjie Qi
checkpoint_merge can be enabled even when no checkpoint merge thread is running. A read-only mount is one case: f2fs does not start f2fs_issue_ckpt there, but ckpt_thread_ioprio is still writable through sysfs. The ckpt_thread_ioprio store path updates the saved ioprio value and, when checkpoint_merge is enabled, calls set_task_ioprio() for the checkpoint thread. If cprc->f2fs_issue_ckpt is NULL, that dereferences a NULL task pointer. Protect ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs writes with s_umount as well, so the checkpoint thread cannot disappear under the store path while updating its ioprio. Fixes: e65920661708 ("f2fs: add ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs node") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: openvswitch: reallocate update replies for mismatched IDsZhiling Zou
ovs_flow_cmd_new() preallocates the optional reply skb before it takes ovs_mutex and before it knows which existing flow will be updated. That is normally fine because the skb is sized from the request flow identifier. That identifier also becomes the inserted flow's identifier. For updates, however, a request with a UFID may miss the UFID lookup and then fall back to the flow key lookup. That lookup can legitimately find an existing key-identified flow. UFIDs are optional and the flow key is the primary identifier. For echoed replies, ovs_flow_cmd_fill_info() writes the matched flow's identifier, not the request identifier used for the preallocation. A short request UFID can therefore leave too little room for the key identifier. The fill can then fail with -EMSGSIZE and hit the BUG_ON(error < 0) in the update path. Once the update target has been resolved, reallocate the reply skb if the matched flow needs a larger reply than the request identifier allowed. Do this before replacing the actions so the request can still fail cleanly if the rare extra allocation fails. Fixes: 74ed7ab9264c ("openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai> Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai> Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f7bbd3c30ce81a39156e226b3872d73abed21d2f.1785644623.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04usbnet: cap max_mtu for drivers without bind callbackLaurent Vivier
usbnet_probe() initializes max_mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU and only caps it inside the if (info->bind) block. Drivers without a bind callback never enter this block, so max_mtu stays at ETH_MAX_MTU. QEMU's usb-net device (0x0525/0xa4a2) is claimed by the cdc_subset driver which has no bind callback. The guest accepts any MTU from DHCP (e.g. 65520 from passt), leading to TCP segments that exceed the device's 2048-byte receive buffer and are silently dropped. Initialize max_mtu to net->mtu at probe time and update it inside the bind block. Fixes: f77f0aee4da4 ("net: use core MTU range checking in USB NIC drivers") Cc: jarod@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3268 Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=189 Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731092711.857684-1-lvivier@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04bnge: use int for bnge_fix_rings_count() return valueAlok Tiwari
bnge_fix_rings_count() returns 0 on success or a negative errno on failure However, bnge_adjust_rings() stores its return value in a u16 variable, causing negative error codes such as -ENOMEM to be converted to a large positive value. Use an int for the return code variable so that error values are preserved and propagated correctly. Fixes: 627c67f038d2 ("bng_en: Add resource management support") Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bhargava Marreddy <bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801100923.1498570-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04Merge branch 'net-atlantic-fix-two-ring-teardown-leaks'Jakub Kicinski
Yangyu Chen says: ==================== net: atlantic: fix two ring teardown leaks These are the two fixes from the page_pool conversion series [1], resent against net as requested in the review of that series. The page_pool conversion itself stays in net-next and is not part of this posting; it depends on these fixes, but they stand on their own. Both patches are unchanged from [1] apart from the collected Reviewed-by tags, and each carries a Fixes tag and a Cc: stable with the affected range (patch 1: v4.11+, patch 2: v5.2+). They apply and were build- and runtime-tested independently of each other and of the conversion. Patch 1: aq_vec_deinit() drains the TX rings with a single aq_ring_tx_clean() call, which is capped at AQ_CFG_TX_CLEAN_BUDGET descriptors and stops at hw_head, frozen once the hardware and NAPI have been stopped. Everything beyond that keeps its skb or xdp_frame when the interface goes down and is lost when the buffer ring is freed. Patch 2: aq_ring_rx_deinit() only walks [sw_head, sw_tail). Since the page reuse strategy was added, a cleaned RX buffer keeps its page for reuse and refill is batched, so consumed but not yet reposted slots accumulate in the [sw_tail, sw_head) gap and their pages and DMA mappings are never released. Reproduction logs for both leaks (as page_pool stalled shutdowns, which is how they become visible) are in the notes of the respective patches. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/tencent_1F173E0FC1606D2AC704DC9C98AF10984607@qq.com/ ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_29B860317921D68DE77C718242DA418EB608@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: atlantic: free RX pages of consumed but not refilled buffersYangyu Chen
aq_ring_rx_deinit() only walks [sw_head, sw_tail), the region posted to hardware. Since the page reuse strategy was added, a cleaned RX buffer keeps its page (and its DMA mapping) in the ring for reuse, and refill is batched: aq_ring_rx_fill() returns early until AQ_CFG_RX_REFILL_THRES slots are free. Slots that were consumed but not yet reposted therefore sit in the complementary [sw_tail, sw_head) gap with a live page, and the deinit walk never visits them: up to a refill batch worth of pages and DMA mappings leak on every interface down. Walk the whole ring instead and release whatever is still there. Also bail out if the buffer ring is already gone: a partial aq_ptp_ring_alloc() failure frees the ring but leaves aq_nic set, so aq_ptp_ring_deinit() still gets here on the unwind path. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+ Fixes: 46f4c29d9de6 ("net: aquantia: optimize rx performance by page reuse strategy") Reviewed-by: Sukhdeep Singh <sukhdeeps@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name> Acked-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_607CBA8237DA438E36B844318B21538DE008@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: atlantic: free stranded TX buffers on ring deinitYangyu Chen
aq_vec_deinit() drains the TX rings with a single aq_ring_tx_clean() call, which frees at most AQ_CFG_TX_CLEAN_BUDGET (256) descriptors and stops at hw_head, which no longer moves once aq_vec_stop() has stopped the hardware and NAPI. Completed descriptors beyond the budget and everything still posted in [hw_head, sw_tail) keep their skb or xdp_frame when the interface goes down: aq_vec_ring_free() then frees the buffer ring and the references are lost for good. Today this is a silent memory leak on every interface down under TX/XDP_TX load. With the conversion of the RX path to page_pool posted for net-next it becomes much more visible: XDP_TX frames carry fragment references on the RX ring's page_pool, so a single stranded frame keeps the pool's inflight count above zero forever. page_pool_destroy() then never completes, the pool is leaked together with its pages, and "page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown" is warned every 60 seconds from that point on, on every ifdown, XDP detach or ring resize under XDP_TX load. Bring back aq_ring_tx_deinit() as it was before the removal and use it for teardown again, with one extension: TX rings can hold xdp_frames nowadays, so release those too. They are returned with xdp_return_frame() since this runs in process context. Fixes: eb36bedf28be ("net: aquantia: remove function aq_ring_tx_deinit") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11+ Reviewed-by: Sukhdeep Singh <sukhdeeps@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name> Acked-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_EEDC35FAF2750A3A6A0B39BAE0E2C484860A@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: stmmac: resume PHY before hardware setup when opening the interfaceStefan Agner
Since the referenced commit, changing the MTU on a running interface no longer disconnects and reconnects the PHY; __stmmac_release() merely stops phylink, which also suspends the PHY (BMCR power-down) when WoL is not enabled. __stmmac_open() then performs the DMA software reset in stmmac_hw_setup() before phylink_start() resumes the PHY again. IEEE 802.3 22.2.4.1.5 allows a PHY to stop its receive clock while powered down, and stmmac requires a running receive clock for the DMA software reset to complete (the phylink config sets mac_requires_rxc). On such setups, e.g. the RK3566-based Home Assistant Green with an RTL8211F-VD PHY in RGMII mode, any runtime MTU change now times out and leaves the interface dead: rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Failed to reset the dma rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: stmmac_hw_setup: DMA engine initialization failed rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Hw setup failed rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: failed reopening the interface after MTU change In the field this is triggered by NetworkManager applying an MTU while activating the connection, breaking networking entirely. The same regression has also been reported on i.MX8MP and reproduced on SoCFPGA based systems. Resume the PHY in __stmmac_open() before the hardware setup, making it the counterpart of the phylink_stop() in __stmmac_release(), like stmmac_resume() already does for the same reason. phylink_start() also resumes the PHY, but only after stmmac_hw_setup(), and it cannot be moved before the hardware setup since it may bring the link up immediately from a workqueue, racing with the initialization (see the comment in stmmac_resume()). For the regular ndo_open path the PHY has just been attached and is not suspended, in which case phylink_prepare_resume() does nothing. Fixes: db299a0c09e9 ("net: stmmac: move PHY handling out of __stmmac_open()/release()") Link: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/4858 Tested-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803095156.132827-1-stefan@agner.ch Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-04net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak in vcap_decode_rule()Abdun Nihaal
The memory allocated for struct vcap_rule_internal, keyfields and actionfields inside vcap_dup_rule() are not freed in some of the error paths in vcap_decode_rule(). Fix that by calling vcap_free_rule(). Compile tested only. Issue found using a prototype static analysis tool built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # untested fix to unlikely driver error path Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <joe@dama.to> Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801055507.47534-1-nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>