From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ziy@nvidia.com,ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com,stable@vger.kernel.org,rakie.kim@sk.com,paulmck@kernel.org,matthew.brost@intel.com,joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com,gourry@gourry.net,david@kernel.org,byungchul@sk.com,apopple@nvidia.com,leitao@debian.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-migrate-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-in-migrate_pages_batch.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:02:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807020239.0A0011F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-migrate-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-in-migrate_pages_batch.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:50:19 -0700
migrate_pages_batch() unmaps each folio before moving it, and every
unmap runs the mmu_notifier invalidate callbacks. On KVM hosts
try_to_migrate() ends up in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() ->
tdp_mmu_zap_leafs(), which is expensive, so unmapping a large batch keeps
the CPU busy for a long time.
The loop already calls cond_resched(), but on PREEMPTION kernels that is
a no-op, and involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent state.
A long batch therefore never reports a quiescent state, and the
migrating task (e.g. kcompactd) becomes a Tasks-RCU holdout, stalling the
Tasks-RCU grace period for minutes, which is common at Meta fleet:
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
0000000055349ecc: .. nvcsw: 1157401/1157401 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/56 task:kcompactd0 state:R running task
Call Trace:
tdp_mmu_zap_leafs
tdp_mmu_next_root
gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start
kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start
try_to_migrate_one
try_to_migrate
migrate_pages_batch
migrate_pages
compact_zone
compact_node
kcompactd
kthread
Use cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() so a quiescent state is reported even
when cond_resched() does nothing.
This has also been discussed at [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727-kcompact-v1-1-bdfefddd6874@debian.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/amdWVTs0WKOxguxP@gmail.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-in-migrate_pages_batch
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ static int migrate_pages_batch(struct li
is_thp = folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio);
nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
- cond_resched();
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
/*
* The rare folio on the deferred split list should
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from leitao@debian.org are
mm-kmemleak-report-leaks-only-after-n-consecutive-unreferenced-scans.patch
mm-kmemleak-factor-leak-confirmation-into-a-helper.patch
selftests-mm-test-kmemleaks-n-consecutive-scan-leak-confirmation.patch
radix-tree-fix-kmemleak-false-positives-on-tree-head-reassignment.patch
mm-kmemleak-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-during-the-scan.patch
mm-kmemleak-default-min_unref_scans-to-2-for-verbose-auto-scan.patch
documentation-kmemleak-document-the-conditional-min_unref_scans-default.patch
selftests-mm-kmemleak-drop-stale-min_unref_scans-default-from-comments.patch
reply other threads:[~2026-08-07 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260807020239.0A0011F000E9@smtp.kernel.org \
--to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=apopple@nvidia.com \
--cc=byungchul@sk.com \
--cc=david@kernel.org \
--cc=gourry@gourry.net \
--cc=joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com \
--cc=leitao@debian.org \
--cc=matthew.brost@intel.com \
--cc=mm-commits@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=paulmck@kernel.org \
--cc=rakie.kim@sk.com \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com \
--cc=ziy@nvidia.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.