From: "Gregory Price (Meta)" <gourry@gourry.net>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/8] mm/page_alloc: detect zonelist rebuilds from memory hot-add
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:39:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021023940.1940971-2-gourry@gourry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021023940.1940971-1-gourry@gourry.net>
The zonelist_update_seq retry was limited to CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE,
presumably because only hot-remove takes zones out of a zonelist.
However, build_zonerefs_node() rewrites the zonelists in place, so
onlining the first block of a zone shifts the entries that follow it
in every zonelist containing that zone. This can cause a spurious
allocation failure for a __GFP_THISNODE caller.
For a node with only ZONE_NORMAL, onlining its first ZONE_MOVABLE block
rewrites the node's ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK list as:
[NORMAL, NULL] -> [MOVABLE, NULL] -> [MOVABLE, NORMAL, NULL]
A concurrent GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_THISNODE allocation can observe the
intermediate list, skip ZONE_MOVABLE, and find no eligible zone. With
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=n, check_retry_zonelist() returns 0 and the
allocation fails even though the node has free ZONE_NORMAL memory.
Gate the sequence checks on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, which covers every
configuration that rebuilds zonelists after boot.
Fixes: 3d36424b3b58 ("mm/page_alloc: fix race condition between build_all_zonelists and page allocation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2daf358269ae7..c7125f6693574 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4404,7 +4404,7 @@ static DEFINE_SEQLOCK(zonelist_update_seq);
static unsigned int zonelist_iter_begin(void)
{
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE))
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG))
return read_seqbegin(&zonelist_update_seq);
return 0;
@@ -4412,7 +4412,7 @@ static unsigned int zonelist_iter_begin(void)
static unsigned int check_retry_zonelist(unsigned int seq)
{
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE))
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG))
return read_seqretry(&zonelist_update_seq, seq);
return seq;
--
2.53.0-Meta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 2:39 [PATCH v3 0/8] mm: fix allocator races with memory hotplug Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` Gregory Price (Meta) [this message]
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] mm/page_alloc: snapshot the preferred zone against shrink rebuilds Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] mm/mmzone: read each zoneref slot once when filtering by nodemask Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] mm/page_alloc: pass the zone, not the zoneref, to reclaim_retry_zone Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] mm/page_alloc: retry allocations that raced with a zonelist rebuild Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] mm/hugetlb: retry the pool walk when the zonelist is rebuilt Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] mm/page_alloc: retry alloc_contig_pages() " Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] mm/page_alloc: keep a zone's pagesets when it goes empty Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-21 8:24 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] mm: fix allocator races with memory hotplug David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-21 13:24 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
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