* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-filemap-retain-mapped-dropbehind-folios.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-09-05 18:48 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-09-05 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, willy, tz2294, trond.myklebust, stable, jack, baohua,
axboe, qiwenjie, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-filemap-retain-mapped-dropbehind-folios.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com>
Subject: mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:36:12 +0800
Fault-around can map ready dropbehind folios without going through the
normal page-cache lookup that clears dropbehind. A mapping represents a
competing cached user, so retain the folio instead of forcibly unmapping
it when writeback completes.
For a mapped folio, folio_unmap_invalidate() can call
unmap_mapping_folio(), which takes i_mmap_rwsem and may sleep. Retaining
mapped folios avoids this path when folio_end_dropbehind() runs in
non-preemptible task context.
Tal was able to trigger a sleeping-in-atomic warning due to this [1].
Unmapped dropbehind folios continue through the existing invalidation path.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4aba05e1a2c3b61cb337d373eb9b7a8db4ddd822.1788024049.git.qiwenjie@xiaomi.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/076bb01b-6fcf-4691-be8c-0e8507c9fe64@columbia.edu [1]
Fixes: fb7d3bc41493 ("mm/filemap: drop streaming/uncached pages when writeback completes")
Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Tested-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-filemap-retain-mapped-dropbehind-folios
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ static void filemap_end_dropbehind(struc
return;
if (!folio_test_clear_dropbehind(folio))
return;
- if (mapping)
+ if (mapping && !folio_mapped(folio))
folio_unmap_invalidate(mapping, folio, 0);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from qiwenjie@xiaomi.com are
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