From: Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
syzbot+03fd9b3f71641f0ebf2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] mm/mglru: skip special VMAs in lru_gen_look_around()
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625212751.23612-1-jakovnovak30@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
[ Upstream commit c28ac3c7eb945fee6e20f47d576af68fdff1392a ]
Special VMAs like VM_PFNMAP can contain anon pages from COW. There isn't
much profit in doing lookaround on them. Besides, they can trigger the
pte_special() warning in get_pte_pfn().
Skip them in lru_gen_look_around().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231223045647.1566043-1-yuzhao@google.com
Fixes: 018ee47f1489 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+03fd9b3f71641f0ebf2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/000000000000f9ff00060d14c256@google.com/
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[fix conflicts with variable declarations and vma pointer usage]
Signed-off-by: Jakov Novak <jakovnovak30@gmail.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 1f7a90ecc700..f6f8c18dc45f 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4622,6 +4622,7 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk;
int young = 0;
unsigned long bitmap[BITS_TO_LONGS(MIN_LRU_BATCH)] = {};
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = pvmw->vma;
struct folio *folio = pfn_folio(pvmw->pfn);
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = folio_memcg(folio);
struct pglist_data *pgdat = folio_pgdat(folio);
@@ -4635,11 +4636,15 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (spin_is_contended(pvmw->ptl))
return;
+ /* exclude special VMAs containing anon pages from COW */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL)
+ return;
+
/* avoid taking the LRU lock under the PTL when possible */
walk = current->reclaim_state ? current->reclaim_state->mm_walk : NULL;
- start = max(pvmw->address & PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_start);
- end = min(pvmw->address | ~PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;
+ start = max(pvmw->address & PMD_MASK, vma->vm_start);
+ end = min(pvmw->address | ~PMD_MASK, vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;
if (end - start > MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE) {
if (pvmw->address - start < MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2)
@@ -4660,7 +4665,7 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
for (i = 0, addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;
- pfn = get_pte_pfn(pte[i], pvmw->vma, addr);
+ pfn = get_pte_pfn(pte[i], vma, addr);
if (pfn == -1)
continue;
@@ -4671,7 +4676,7 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young(pvmw->vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte + i))
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(true);
young++;
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-25 21:28 UTC|newest]
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2026-06-25 21:27 Jakov Novak [this message]
2026-06-26 17:54 ` [PATCH 6.1.y] mm/mglru: skip special VMAs in lru_gen_look_around() Sasha Levin
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