The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/page_alloc: Separate THP PCP into movable and non-movable categories has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_alloc-separate-thp-pcp-into-movable-and-non-movable-categories.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------ From: yangge yangge1116@126.com Subject: mm/page_alloc: Separate THP PCP into movable and non-movable categories Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:59:50 +0800

Since commit 5d0a661d808f ("mm/page_alloc: use only one PCP list for THP-sized allocations") no longer differentiates the migration type of pages in THP-sized PCP list, it's possible that non-movable allocation requests may get a CMA page from the list, in some cases, it's not acceptable.

If a large number of CMA memory are configured in system (for example, the CMA memory accounts for 50% of the system memory), starting a virtual machine with device passthrough will get stuck. During starting the virtual machine, it will call pin_user_pages_remote(..., FOLL_LONGTERM, ...) to pin memory. Normally if a page is present and in CMA area, pin_user_pages_remote() will migrate the page from CMA area to non-CMA area because of FOLL_LONGTERM flag. But if non-movable allocation requests return CMA memory, migrate_longterm_unpinnable_pages() will migrate a CMA page to another CMA page, which will fail to pass the check in check_and_migrate_movable_pages() and cause migration endless.

Call trace: pin_user_pages_remote --__gup_longterm_locked // endless loops in this function ----_get_user_pages_locked ----check_and_migrate_movable_pages ------migrate_longterm_unpinnable_pages --------alloc_migration_target

This problem will also have a negative impact on CMA itself. For example, when CMA is borrowed by THP, and we need to reclaim it through cma_alloc() or dma_alloc_coherent(), we must move those pages out to ensure CMA's users can retrieve that contigous memory. Currently, CMA's memory is occupied by non-movable pages, meaning we can't relocate them. As a result, cma_alloc() is more likely to fail.

To fix the problem above, we add one PCP list for THP, which will not introduce a new cacheline for struct per_cpu_pages. THP will have 2 PCP lists, one PCP list is used by MOVABLE allocation, and the other PCP list is used by UNMOVABLE allocation. MOVABLE allocation contains GPF_MOVABLE, and UNMOVABLE allocation contains GFP_UNMOVABLE and GFP_RECLAIMABLE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1718845190-4456-1-git-send-email-yangge1116@126.co... Fixes: 5d0a661d808f ("mm/page_alloc: use only one PCP list for THP-sized allocations") Signed-off-by: yangge yangge1116@126.com Cc: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Barry Song 21cnbao@gmail.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

include/linux/mmzone.h | 9 ++++----- mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-page_alloc-separate-thp-pcp-into-movable-and-non-movable-categories +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -654,13 +654,12 @@ enum zone_watermarks { };

/* - * One per migratetype for each PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. One additional list - * for THP which will usually be GFP_MOVABLE. Even if it is another type, - * it should not contribute to serious fragmentation causing THP allocation - * failures. + * One per migratetype for each PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. Two additional lists + * are added for THP. One PCP list is used by GPF_MOVABLE, and the other PCP list + * is used by GFP_UNMOVABLE and GFP_RECLAIMABLE. */ #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE -#define NR_PCP_THP 1 +#define NR_PCP_THP 2 #else #define NR_PCP_THP 0 #endif --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-separate-thp-pcp-into-movable-and-non-movable-categories +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -504,10 +504,15 @@ out:

static inline unsigned int order_to_pindex(int migratetype, int order) { + bool __maybe_unused movable; + #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) { VM_BUG_ON(order != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); - return NR_LOWORDER_PCP_LISTS; + + movable = migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE; + + return NR_LOWORDER_PCP_LISTS + movable; } #else VM_BUG_ON(order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER); @@ -521,7 +526,7 @@ static inline int pindex_to_order(unsign int order = pindex / MIGRATE_PCPTYPES;

#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE - if (pindex == NR_LOWORDER_PCP_LISTS) + if (pindex >= NR_LOWORDER_PCP_LISTS) order = HPAGE_PMD_ORDER; #else VM_BUG_ON(order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER); _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yangge1116@126.com are

mm-gup-clear-the-lru-flag-of-a-page-before-adding-to-lru-batch.patch