From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, byungchul@sk.com,
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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(+)
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2.53.0-Meta
next 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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