[PATCH 6.12 555/567] mm/balloon_compaction: we cannot have isolated pages in the balloon list

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:45:05Z

From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit fb05f992b6bbb4702307d96f00703ee637b24dbf ]

Patch series "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)",
v2.

In the future, as we decouple "struct page" from "struct folio", pages
that support "non-lru page migration" -- movable_ops page migration such
as memory balloons and zsmalloc -- will no longer be folios. They will
not have ->mapping, ->lru, and likely no refcount and no page lock. But
they will have a type and flags 🙂

This is the first part (other parts not written yet) of decoupling
movable_ops page migration from folio migration.

In this series, we get rid of the ->mapping usage, and start cleaning up
the code + separating it from folio migration.

Migration core will have to be further reworked to not treat movable_ops
pages like folios. This is the first step into that direction.

This patch (of 29):

The core will set PG_isolated only after mops->isolate_page() was called.
In case of the balloon, that is where we will remove it from the balloon
list. So we cannot have isolated pages in the balloon list.

Let's drop this unnecessary check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704102524.326966-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Eugenio Pé rez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 0da2ba35c0d5 ("powerpc/pseries/cmm: adjust BALLOON_MIGRATE when migrating pages")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/balloon_compaction.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
+++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
@@ -93,12 +93,6 @@ size_t balloon_page_list_dequeue(struct
if (!trylock_page(page))
continue;

- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION) &&
- PageIsolated(page)) {
- /* raced with isolation */
- unlock_page(page);
- continue;
- }
balloon_page_delete(page);
__count_vm_event(BALLOON_DEFLATE);
list_add(&page->lru, pages);