The patch titled Subject: mm: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large() has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large.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: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large() Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 15:23:15 -0700 (PDT)

mm/swap.c and mm/mlock.c agree to drain any per-CPU batch as soon as a large folio is added: so collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() just wastes effort when calling lru_add_drain[_all]() on a large folio.

But although there is good reason not to batch up PMD-sized folios, we might well benefit from batching a small number of low-order mTHPs (though unclear how that "small number" limitation will be implemented).

So ask if folio_may_be_lru_cached() rather than !folio_test_large(), to insulate those particular checks from future change. Name preferred to "folio_is_batchable" because large folios can well be put on a batch: it's just the per-CPU LRU caches, drained much later, which need care.

Marked for stable, to counter the increase in lru_add_drain_all()s from "mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57d2eaf8-3607-f318-e0c5-be02dce61ad0@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Suggested-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 ---

include/linux/swap.h | 10 ++++++++++ mm/gup.c | 4 ++-- mm/mlock.c | 6 +++--- mm/swap.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/swap.h~mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large +++ a/include/linux/swap.h @@ -385,6 +385,16 @@ void folio_add_lru_vma(struct folio *, s void mark_page_accessed(struct page *); void folio_mark_accessed(struct folio *);

+static inline bool folio_may_be_lru_cached(struct folio *folio) +{ + /* + * Holding PMD-sized folios in per-CPU LRU cache unbalances accounting. + * Holding small numbers of low-order mTHP folios in per-CPU LRU cache + * will be sensible, but nobody has implemented and tested that yet. + */ + return !folio_test_large(folio); +} + extern atomic_t lru_disable_count;

static inline bool lru_cache_disabled(void) --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -2307,13 +2307,13 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_un continue; }

- if (drained == 0 && + if (drained == 0 && folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) && folio_ref_count(folio) != folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) { lru_add_drain(); drained = 1; } - if (drained == 1 && + if (drained == 1 && folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) && folio_ref_count(folio) != folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) { lru_add_drain_all(); --- a/mm/mlock.c~mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large +++ a/mm/mlock.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void mlock_folio(struct folio *folio)

folio_get(folio); if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, mlock_lru(folio)) || - folio_test_large(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) + !folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) mlock_folio_batch(fbatch); local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock); } @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ void mlock_new_folio(struct folio *folio

folio_get(folio); if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, mlock_new(folio)) || - folio_test_large(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) + !folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) mlock_folio_batch(fbatch); local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock); } @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ void munlock_folio(struct folio *folio) */ folio_get(folio); if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, folio) || - folio_test_large(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) + !folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled()) mlock_folio_batch(fbatch); local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock); } --- a/mm/swap.c~mm-folio_may_be_lru_cached-unless-folio_test_large +++ a/mm/swap.c @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static void __folio_batch_add_and_move(s local_lock(&cpu_fbatches.lock);

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

if (disable_irq) _

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