The patch titled Subject: mm: Revert "mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch" has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-revert-mm-gup-clear-the-lru-flag-of-a-page-before-adding-to-lru-batch.patch

This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: mm: Revert "mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch" Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT)

This reverts commit 33dfe9204f29: now that collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() is checking ref_count instead of lru, and mlock/munlock do not participate in the revised LRU flag clearing, those changes are misleading, and enlarge the window during which mlock/munlock may miss an mlock_count update.

It is possible (I'd hesitate to claim probable) that the greater likelihood of missed mlock_count updates would explain the "Realtime threads delayed due to kcompactd0" observed on 6.12 in the Link below. If that is the case, this reversion will help; but a complete solution needs also a further patch, beyond the scope of this series.

Included some 80-column cleanup around folio_batch_add_and_move().

The role of folio_test_clear_lru() (before taking per-memcg lru_lock) is questionable since 6.13 removed mem_cgroup_move_account() etc; but perhaps there are still some races which need it - not examined here.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/DU0PR01MB10385345F7153F334100981888259A@DU0... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/05905d7b-ed14-68b1-79d8-bdec30367eba@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" aneesh.kumar@kernel.org Cc: Axel Rasmussen axelrasmussen@google.com Cc: Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org Cc: Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com Cc: Keir Fraser keirf@google.com Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov koct9i@gmail.com Cc: Li Zhe lizhe.67@bytedance.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com Cc: Shivank Garg shivankg@amd.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Wei Xu weixugc@google.com Cc: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Cc: yangge yangge1116@126.com Cc: Yuanchu Xie yuanchu@google.com Cc: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/swap.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/swap.c~mm-revert-mm-gup-clear-the-lru-flag-of-a-page-before-adding-to-lru-batch +++ a/mm/swap.c @@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ static void folio_batch_move_lru(struct for (i = 0; i < folio_batch_count(fbatch); i++) { struct folio *folio = fbatch->folios[i];

+ /* block memcg migration while the folio moves between lru */ + if (move_fn != lru_add && !folio_test_clear_lru(folio)) + continue; + folio_lruvec_relock_irqsave(folio, &lruvec, &flags); move_fn(lruvec, folio);

@@ -176,14 +180,10 @@ static void folio_batch_move_lru(struct }

static void __folio_batch_add_and_move(struct folio_batch __percpu *fbatch, - struct folio *folio, move_fn_t move_fn, - bool on_lru, bool disable_irq) + struct folio *folio, move_fn_t move_fn, bool disable_irq) { unsigned long flags;

- if (on_lru && !folio_test_clear_lru(folio)) - return; - folio_get(folio);

if (disable_irq) @@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ static void __folio_batch_add_and_move(s else local_lock(&cpu_fbatches.lock);

- if (!folio_batch_add(this_cpu_ptr(fbatch), folio) || folio_test_large(folio) || - lru_cache_disabled()) + if (!folio_batch_add(this_cpu_ptr(fbatch), folio) || + folio_test_large(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) folio_batch_move_lru(this_cpu_ptr(fbatch), move_fn);

if (disable_irq) @@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ static void __folio_batch_add_and_move(s local_unlock(&cpu_fbatches.lock); }

-#define folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, op, on_lru) \ - __folio_batch_add_and_move( \ - &cpu_fbatches.op, \ - folio, \ - op, \ - on_lru, \ - offsetof(struct cpu_fbatches, op) >= offsetof(struct cpu_fbatches, lock_irq) \ +#define folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, op) \ + __folio_batch_add_and_move( \ + &cpu_fbatches.op, \ + folio, \ + op, \ + offsetof(struct cpu_fbatches, op) >= \ + offsetof(struct cpu_fbatches, lock_irq) \ )

static void lru_move_tail(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio) @@ -231,10 +231,10 @@ static void lru_move_tail(struct lruvec void folio_rotate_reclaimable(struct folio *folio) { if (folio_test_locked(folio) || folio_test_dirty(folio) || - folio_test_unevictable(folio)) + folio_test_unevictable(folio) || !folio_test_lru(folio)) return;

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_move_tail, true); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_move_tail); }

void lru_note_cost_unlock_irq(struct lruvec *lruvec, bool file, @@ -328,10 +328,11 @@ static void folio_activate_drain(int cpu

void folio_activate(struct folio *folio) { - if (folio_test_active(folio) || folio_test_unevictable(folio)) + if (folio_test_active(folio) || folio_test_unevictable(folio) || + !folio_test_lru(folio)) return;

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_activate, true); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_activate); }

#else @@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ void folio_add_lru(struct folio *folio) lru_gen_in_fault() && !(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) folio_set_active(folio);

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_add, false); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_add); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_add_lru);

@@ -685,13 +686,13 @@ void lru_add_drain_cpu(int cpu) void deactivate_file_folio(struct folio *folio) { /* Deactivating an unevictable folio will not accelerate reclaim */ - if (folio_test_unevictable(folio)) + if (folio_test_unevictable(folio) || !folio_test_lru(folio)) return;

if (lru_gen_enabled() && lru_gen_clear_refs(folio)) return;

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_deactivate_file, true); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_deactivate_file); }

/* @@ -704,13 +705,13 @@ void deactivate_file_folio(struct folio */ void folio_deactivate(struct folio *folio) { - if (folio_test_unevictable(folio)) + if (folio_test_unevictable(folio) || !folio_test_lru(folio)) return;

if (lru_gen_enabled() ? lru_gen_clear_refs(folio) : !folio_test_active(folio)) return;

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_deactivate, true); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_deactivate); }

/** @@ -723,10 +724,11 @@ void folio_deactivate(struct folio *foli void folio_mark_lazyfree(struct folio *folio) { if (!folio_test_anon(folio) || !folio_test_swapbacked(folio) || + !folio_test_lru(folio) || folio_test_swapcache(folio) || folio_test_unevictable(folio)) return;

- folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_lazyfree, true); + folio_batch_add_and_move(folio, lru_lazyfree); }

void lru_add_drain(void) _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@google.com are

mm-gup-check-ref_count-instead-of-lru-before-migration.patch mm-gup-local-lru_add_drain-to-avoid-lru_add_drain_all.patch mm-revert-mm-gup-clear-the-lru-flag-of-a-page-before-adding-to-lru-batch.patch mm-revert-mm-vmscanc-fix-oom-on-swap-stress-test.patch mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large.patch mm-lru_add_drain_all-do-local-lru_add_drain-first.patch