Re: [syzbot] [mm?] WARNING in memory_failure

Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-09-29T11:08:58Z

>
> I want to change all the split functions in huge_mm.h and provide
> mapping_min_folio_order() to try_folio_split() in truncate_inode_partial_folio().
>
> Something like below:
>
> 1. no split function will change the given order;
> 2. __folio_split() will no longer give VM_WARN_ONCE when provided new_order
> is smaller than mapping_min_folio_order().
>
> In this way, for an LBS folio that cannot be split to order 0, split
> functions will return -EINVAL to tell caller that the folio cannot
> be split. The caller is supposed to handle the split failure.

IIUC, we will remove warn on once but just return -EINVAL in __folio_split()
function if new_order < min_order like this:
...
min_order = mapping_min_folio_order(folio->mapping);
if (new_order < min_order) {
- VM_WARN_ONCE(1, "Cannot split mapped folio below min-order: %u",
- min_order);
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
...
>
> WDYT?
>
I think it should be fine as along as we return an error if someone is
trying to split < min_order for file-backed folios.

> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> index f327d62fc985..e15c3ca07e33 100644
> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> @@ -387,34 +387,16 @@ int folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order, struct page *page,
> * Return: 0: split is successful, otherwise split failed.
> */
> static inline int try_folio_split(struct folio *folio, struct page *page,
> - struct list_head *list)
> + struct list_head *list, unsigned int order)
> {
--
Pankaj