From: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
To: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix device page migration in low memory fallback
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 12:35:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805193536.3756457-1-matthew.brost@intel.com> (raw)
LLMs made my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not really. They served as an
assistive tool while I performed the debugging, testing, and analysis
needed to isolate the root cause in core MM while fixing a known DRM SVM
issue involving THP allocation failures in the CPU fault-to-device page
migration path.
When a CPU faults on a device private PMD and the driver cannot allocate
a compound destination folio, the source THP has to be split. That path
is broken: the CPU fault reference makes the split always fail, and it
demotes the PMD only in the faulting VMA, leaving any other VMA mapping
the folio pointing a huge PMD at an order-0 page.
The latter is memory corruption, previously masked by the former.
The DRM side had its own problems in the same fallback: there was no
order-0 fallback at all despite a TODO saying one was needed, the error
path computed folio_order() after put_page(), and once the destination
is demoted to order-0 the source page array has to be populated per
page rather than per folio head, or the copy stops after one page.
Validation was performed using xe_exec_system_allocator. The issue was
initially discovered on systems configured with an artificially
constrained memory footprint (mem=8G), where failures occurred
intermittently. Error injection was then introduced to reliably
reproduce the failure condition, enabling thorough validation of the
fix. Results were confirmed through pass/fail A/B testing.
Matt
v2::
- Add assert in 'Fix folio allocation fallback and use-after-put' for
THP placement invariant which Sashiko hallucinated as a bug [1]
- Add 'Clear MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE on all sub-folios of a split THP'
(Sashiko)
- Fix checkpatch issues (CI)
- Swap cache issue flagged by Sashiko [1] not fixed as this code doesn't
appear reachable (i.e., dead code). Can address in a follow up if
needed
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260805113338.3742178-1-matthew.brost%40intel.com
Matthew Brost (5):
mm/migrate_device: Clear MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE on all sub-folios of a
split THP
mm/migrate_device: Fix THP splitting of a CPU faulted device private
folio
mm/migrate_device: Apply the fault reference to the correct folio
drm/pagemap: Fix folio allocation fallback and use-after-put
drm/pagemap: Add fault injection for higher-order RAM folio allocation
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
mm/migrate_device.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
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2.34.1
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 19:35 Matthew Brost [this message]
2026-08-05 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/migrate_device: Clear MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE on all sub-folios of a split THP Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/migrate_device: Fix THP splitting of a CPU faulted device private folio Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/migrate_device: Apply the fault reference to the correct folio Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] drm/pagemap: Fix folio allocation fallback and use-after-put Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 19:35 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] drm/pagemap: Add fault injection for higher-order RAM folio allocation Matthew Brost
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