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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


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