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From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	apopple@nvidia.com, baohua@kernel.org,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, byungchul@sk.com,
	david@kernel.org, dev.jain@arm.com, gourry@gourry.net,
	jannh@google.com, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, lance.yang@linux.dev,
	liam@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, ljs@kernel.org, matthew.brost@intel.com,
	npache@redhat.com, rakie.kim@sk.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
	usama.arif@linux.dev, vbabka@kernel.org,
	ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
	shakeel.butt@linux.dev, hannes@cmpxchg.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks
Date: Tue,  7 Jul 2026 06:45:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707135255.292870-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)

Since commit 368076f52ebe ("mm/huge_memory: add device-private THP support
to PMD operations") a PMD may hold a device-private swap entry whenever
an HMM-based GPU driver migrates an anonymous THP folio to device memory
via migrate_vma_pages().

pmd_trans_huge_lock() succeeds for such PMDs (pmd_is_huge() returns true
for any non-present, non-none huge PMD), so several MM walk callbacks
that used to assume present THP or migration entry are now reachable with
a device-private PMD. The results range from a VM_BUG_ON() firing on debug
kernels, to an oops on a bogus vmemmap dereference, to silently isolating
an unrelated live folio from LRU in the aliasing case.

The first 2 fixes were reported as pre-existing issues by sashiko in my
PMD swap entry series [1]. Hopefully sashiko won't point these out
in the next PMD swap entry series :)

[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260703173903.3789516-1-usama.arif%40linux.dev?part=6
 
Usama Arif (3):
  mm/mempolicy: skip device-private PMDs when queueing folios
  mm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks
  mm/huge_memory: skip device-private PMDs in madvise_free_huge_pmd

 mm/huge_memory.c | 3 +++
 mm/madvise.c     | 3 +++
 mm/mempolicy.c   | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

-- 
2.53.0-Meta


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-07 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-07 13:45 Usama Arif [this message]
2026-07-07 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/mempolicy: skip device-private PMDs when queueing folios Usama Arif
2026-07-07 20:33   ` Zi Yan
2026-07-08 10:54     ` Usama Arif
2026-07-08 15:25       ` Zi Yan
2026-07-07 23:49   ` Balbir Singh
2026-07-07 13:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks Usama Arif
2026-07-07 20:41   ` Zi Yan
2026-07-07 23:27   ` Balbir Singh
2026-07-07 13:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/huge_memory: skip device-private PMDs in madvise_free_huge_pmd Usama Arif
2026-07-07 20:44   ` Zi Yan
2026-07-07 23:26   ` Balbir Singh
2026-07-07 14:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-07 14:12   ` Usama Arif
2026-07-08  8:23     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-08  8:40       ` Balbir Singh
2026-07-07 15:30   ` Zi Yan
2026-07-07 22:57   ` Balbir Singh
2026-07-08  8:38     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-07 19:19 ` Joshua Hahn
2026-07-08 12:22   ` Usama Arif

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