From: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
To: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
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Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Fix device page migration in low memory fallback
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 04:33:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805113338.3742178-1-matthew.brost@intel.com> (raw)
LLMs made my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not really. They served as an
assistive tool while I performed the debugging, testing, and analysis
needed to isolate the root cause in core MM while fixing a known DRM SVM
issue involving THP allocation failures in the CPU fault-to-device page
migration path.
When a CPU faults on a device private PMD and the driver cannot allocate
a compound destination folio, the source THP has to be split. That path
is broken: the CPU fault reference makes the split always fail, and it
demotes the PMD only in the faulting VMA, leaving any other VMA mapping
the folio pointing a huge PMD at an order-0 page.
The latter is memory corruption, previously masked by the former.
The DRM side had its own problems in the same fallback: there was no
order-0 fallback at all despite a TODO saying one was needed, the error
path computed folio_order() after put_page(), and once the destination
is demoted to order-0 the source page array has to be populated per
page rather than per folio head, or the copy stops after one page.
Validation was performed using xe_exec_system_allocator. The issue was
initially discovered on systems configured with an artificially
constrained memory footprint (mem=8G), where failures occurred
intermittently. Error injection was then introduced to reliably
reproduce the failure condition, enabling thorough validation of the
fix. Results were confirmed through pass/fail A/B testing.
Matt
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Matthew Brost (4):
mm/migrate_device: Fix THP splitting of a CPU faulted device private
folio
mm/migrate_device: Apply the fault reference to the correct folio
drm/pagemap: Fix folio allocation fallback and use-after-put
drm/pagemap: Add fault injection for higher-order RAM folio allocation
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
mm/migrate_device.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 11:33 Matthew Brost [this message]
2026-08-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/migrate_device: Fix THP splitting of a CPU faulted device private folio Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/migrate_device: Apply the fault reference to the correct folio Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] drm/pagemap: Fix folio allocation fallback and use-after-put Matthew Brost
2026-08-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] drm/pagemap: Add fault injection for higher-order RAM folio allocation Matthew Brost
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