From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1794048890; b=AR2Q7h5s8y/IQKxVKV3W3Y6ebpAemRszpCys/1Y7LTUFF/5t4t1nTs7Tta0UxYelXAkw DMxCF6AoVrPlGYFirVP/uo/RK15YUU7mRa5RqwjB9lejjngJXOwjopEIbKrBH+KP702AL 6V2ThmjCYpaiIYngpqsjIdnPgB4J0kV5PhTRupQFOgiZ3cS/1yTM1jCK4ZtOPD7Hur/H3 MpKbTCLrUiWOV/o09MonptaYxFV52rqUn9iPj0GuhNH6RJpp+eClfVx4md/fu1JqboFVO iCt9/wruyVIeXkzn9idX18GEmbf7sc5s93/4X5eIIiDXvVEvpTEiZNeHmg8yohKVhZw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1794048890; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:X-Mailer: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=pNrnlT3DrY50FHgh/863/ByezWEoDFX6Pe2ipV362EI=; b=zaWttz+iGngbKu89GUMg4nmhAGEjqCTWtwWh5lr2C5UQvNp4tkHhU9IISSWcZIGl25d+ LOGuM/8xA1fZnwC7+NpKahz77YdBVEnuPsZx+0U+1r0aYSxVxA0oaWPu3QBPpHOT1RXar 5PbfawXXTfr5ge3iLTduTl/g/H6nLxuv5dvKFKxAAEhDdB5KeKrnCasaoszp7l76iRJxa L8rh3dnISGY4Q7CA2PcAo+nSVx7CyKMTYXj/Cc0xid58uHu5YGxHBslgh0SojAx8Cb1CQ Wze1CF3PFP5JpN8RntSDw3UaagI9vNtB0Bx7bk35FOKkM6ejhvT7Ggp/QkRhjYiUxyw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=C7bmoX+l; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE656606A326 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2026 10:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=C7bmoX+l Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 92F9C1F0089F; Sat, 7 Nov 2026 10:54:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1794048889; bh=pNrnlT3DrY50FHgh/863/ByezWEoDFX6Pe2ipV362EI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date; b=C7bmoX+l+clTnjzsNhd7HHiMCPyXf1LNgdYnRo43qgJ1ph/VtYNe2IzCDz0gqw6Vb hPYmNV46YBoujQmR1EiTieyIKe/A5HIMrT/gE7ieMDOL8IHy3bvPznujV6JUkaA7N+ g9w2GQQ1/0EeJtoIEf6jhbCESRS4VYadC0KU0VF1L9EqfDWI9of0Y5Al9fIsH8XHmu InefSkBKjAx/310oYwF2qh8ADr7HybcpxZTBQ2LOMbWBEihOKh2NIMphX7aNWSCOwJ J0Xor8b92cZabVYaqpvV/A2ZX01g1i2ROFG+OLTTFwe3uxih4mBwvGWLcXVSvW2KS7 6Ssdcjo5cgOSQ== From: Sasha Levin To: gourry@gourry.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, david@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, rakie.kim@sk.com, ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, mhocko@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/mempolicy: apply bind policies against the scoped allocation zone" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 05:54:47 -0500 Message-ID: <20261107055447-failed-6.1-d4ea410ce4b8@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to . To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands: git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x d4ea410ce4b8aa46a316476ea2624a357bf31fa9 # git commit -s git send-email --to '' --in-reply-to '20261107055447-failed-6.1-d4ea410ce4b8@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..' Thanks, Sasha ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From d4ea410ce4b8aa46a316476ea2624a357bf31fa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory Price (Meta)" Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:33:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: apply bind policies against the scoped allocation zone QEMU fails to start a guest with a VFIO device when guest RAM comes from a memory backend bound to a movable-only node: vfio_container_dma_map(0x55b1b1317800, 0x0, 0x10000000, 0x7f39a2200000) = -12 (Cannot allocate memory) VFIO pins guest RAM when the device is realized, and the pin faults the pages in. io_uring fixed buffers fail the same way. Faulting the range in before pinning lets the same pin succeed, since resident pages are migrated off the node instead. A long-term pin faults under memalloc_pin_save(). PF_MEMALLOC_PIN makes current_gfp_context() clear __GFP_MOVABLE, but policy_nodemask() tests apply_policy_zone() against the caller's gfp. The bind keeps its movable-only nodemask, and the allocation finds no usable zone: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x140dc2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=1,cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1 Call Trace: warn_alloc+0x136/0x150 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xed8/0x1720 alloc_pages_mpol+0xaa/0x170 vma_alloc_folio_noprof+0x65/0xd0 __handle_mm_fault+0x137b/0x1ac0 handle_mm_fault+0xa0/0x270 __get_user_pages+0x250/0xfd0 __gup_longterm_locked+0x116/0x870 gup_fast_fallback+0xcfc/0xdf0 pin_user_pages_fast+0x47/0x60 io_pin_pages+0x9a/0x110 Base page faults fail with -ENOMEM. hugetlb faults fail with -EFAULT. Check the policy zone against current_gfp_context(gfp), so a pin-scoped fault falls back off the movable-only nodemask, like any other non-movable allocation under the same bind. Tested in qemu with a dax/kmem movable-only node 1. io_uring and VFIO pins of unfaulted base pages and 2MB hugetlb pages now succeed and land on node 0 (correct). QEMU now starts with the same backend binding. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261018023349.1697434-1-gourry@gourry.net Fixes: 8e3560d963d2 ("mm: honor PF_MEMALLOC_PIN for all movable pages") Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Ying Huang Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: --- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 70298fded1b4a..0884c629670dd 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2302,7 +2302,7 @@ static nodemask_t *policy_nodemask(gfp_t gfp, struct mempolicy *pol, break; case MPOL_BIND: /* Restrict to nodemask (but not on lower zones) */ - if (apply_policy_zone(pol, gfp_zone(gfp)) && + if (apply_policy_zone(pol, gfp_zone(current_gfp_context(gfp))) && cpuset_nodemask_valid_mems_allowed(&pol->nodes)) nodemask = &pol->nodes; if (pol->home_node != NUMA_NO_NODE) -- 2.53.0