The patch titled Subject: mm/numa: no task_numa_fault() call if PMD is changed has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-numa-no-task_numa_fault-call-if-pmd-is-changed.patch

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

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com Subject: mm/numa: no task_numa_fault() call if PMD is changed Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 10:59:05 -0400

When handling a numa page fault, task_numa_fault() should be called by a process that restores the page table of the faulted folio to avoid duplicated stats counting. Commit c5b5a3dd2c1f ("mm: thp: refactor NUMA fault handling") restructured do_huge_pmd_numa_page() and did not avoid task_numa_fault() call in the second page table check after a numa migration failure. Fix it by making all !pmd_same() return immediately.

This issue can cause task_numa_fault() being called more than necessary and lead to unexpected numa balancing results (It is hard to tell whether the issue will cause positive or negative performance impact due to duplicated numa fault counting).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809145906.1513458-3-ziy@nvidia.com Fixes: c5b5a3dd2c1f ("mm: thp: refactor NUMA fault handling") Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87zfqfw0yw.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel... Signed-off-by: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Cc: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: Yang Shi shy828301@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/huge_memory.c | 29 +++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-numa-no-task_numa_fault-call-if-pmd-is-changed +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd); if (unlikely(!pmd_same(oldpmd, *vmf->pmd))) { spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); - goto out; + return 0; }

pmd = pmd_modify(oldpmd, vma->vm_page_prot); @@ -1728,22 +1728,16 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct if (!migrate_misplaced_folio(folio, vma, target_nid)) { flags |= TNF_MIGRATED; nid = target_nid; - } else { - flags |= TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL; - vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd); - if (unlikely(!pmd_same(oldpmd, *vmf->pmd))) { - spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); - goto out; - } - goto out_map; - } - -out: - if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) task_numa_fault(last_cpupid, nid, HPAGE_PMD_NR, flags); + return 0; + }

- return 0; - + flags |= TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL; + vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd); + if (unlikely(!pmd_same(oldpmd, *vmf->pmd))) { + spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); + return 0; + } out_map: /* Restore the PMD */ pmd = pmd_modify(oldpmd, vma->vm_page_prot); @@ -1753,7 +1747,10 @@ out_map: set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, haddr, vmf->pmd, pmd); update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd); spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); - goto out; + + if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) + task_numa_fault(last_cpupid, nid, HPAGE_PMD_NR, flags); + return 0; }

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from ziy@nvidia.com are

mm-numa-no-task_numa_fault-call-if-pte-is-changed.patch mm-numa-no-task_numa_fault-call-if-pmd-is-changed.patch memory-tiering-read-last_cpupid-correctly-in-do_huge_pmd_numa_page.patch memory-tiering-introduce-folio_use_access_time-check.patch memory-tiering-count-pgpromote_success-when-mem-tiering-is-enabled.patch