From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH hotfix] mm: fix pmd_special() fallback to observe huge_zero
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:08:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74a75b59-2e13-3985-ee99-d5521f39df2a@google.com> (raw)
On x86 32-bit with THP enabled, zap_huge_pmd() is seen to generate a
"WARNING: mm/memory.c:735 at __vm_normal_page+0x6a/0x7d", from the
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_zero_pfn(pfn) || is_huge_zero_pfn(pfn)); followed
by "BUG: Bad rss-counter state"s, then later "BUG: Bad page state"s
when reclaim gets to call shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan().
It's as if the _PAGE_SPECIAL bit never got set in the huge_zero pmd:
and indeed, whereas pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() are subject to a
dedicated CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, pmd_special() and pmd_mkspecial()
are subject to CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP, which is never enabled
on any 32-bit architecture.
Add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMD_SPECIAL? Perhaps; but I think it's better just
to observe the huge_zero pmd in the fallback version of pmd_special().
Fixes: d80a9cb1a64a ("mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0b776907152e..3b02ac43bcb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3422,7 +3422,7 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte)
#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP
static inline bool pmd_special(pmd_t pmd)
{
- return false;
+ return is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkspecial(pmd_t pmd)
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-29 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-29 5:08 Hugh Dickins [this message]
2026-04-29 5:54 ` [PATCH hotfix] mm: fix pmd_special() fallback to observe huge_zero Lance Yang
2026-04-29 6:12 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-29 6:57 ` Lance Yang
2026-04-29 7:14 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-29 7:33 ` Lance Yang
2026-04-30 5:53 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 6:46 ` Lance Yang
2026-04-30 8:30 ` Lance Yang
2026-04-30 8:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2026-04-30 8:54 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 9:10 ` Lance Yang
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