From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
david@kernel.org, chrisl@kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com,
ljs@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
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Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [RESEND v7 20/29] mm/madvise: skip PMD swap entries for MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:28:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914122950.3283997-21-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914122950.3283997-1-usama.arif@linux.dev>
A swapped-out THP has no resident folio to deactivate or reclaim, which is
also the conclusion the PTE path reaches when it walks the swap entries and
skips every one.
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() gets there the long way round:
pmd_trans_huge() is false for a PMD swap entry, so it falls out of the huge
branch and tries to map a PTE table that a non-present PMD does not have.
The entry can also appear after that first, lockless test, so re-check
under the PMD lock; otherwise a PMD that turned into a swap entry while
pmd_trans_huge_lock() was being taken trips the VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() that
expects a migration or device-private entry.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
mm/madvise.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 70acb39b8b3dd..d3b5ed7e3cffb 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -385,6 +385,15 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
!can_do_file_pageout(vma);
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ /*
+ * Swapped-out THPs have no resident folio to deactivate or reclaim.
+ * Avoid descending into or splitting a PMD swap entry.
+ */
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(*pmd)) {
+ walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
pmd_t orig_pmd;
unsigned long next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -395,6 +404,9 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
return 0;
orig_pmd = *pmd;
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(orig_pmd))
+ goto huge_unlock;
+
if (unlikely(!pmd_present(orig_pmd))) {
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!pmd_is_migration_entry(orig_pmd) &&
!pmd_is_device_private_entry(orig_pmd));
--
2.53.0-Meta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-14 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 12:27 [RESEND v7 00/29] mm: PMD-level swap entries for anonymous THPs Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 01/29] mm: rename pmd_to_softleaf_folio() to pmd_softleaf_to_folio() Usama Arif
2026-09-14 21:17 ` Barry Song
2026-09-15 3:06 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-15 3:34 ` Qi Zheng
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 02/29] arm64: mm: add PMD swap-exclusive helpers Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 03/29] loongarch: " Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 04/29] powerpc: " Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 05/29] riscv: " Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 06/29] s390: " Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 07/29] x86: " Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 08/29] mm: recognize PMD swap entries in the softleaf layer Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:27 ` [RESEND v7 09/29] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: test PMD swap-exclusive helpers Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 10/29] mm: make PMD migration-entry splitting explicit Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 11/29] mm: split PMD swap entries into PTE swap entries Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 12/29] mm: handle PMD swap entries in fork path Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 13/29] mm: zswap: reject high-order swap cache allocations backed by zswap Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 14/29] mm: swap in PMD swap entries as whole THPs during swapoff Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 15/29] fs/proc: account PMD swap entries in smaps Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 16/29] mm: handle soft-dirty and uffd-wp on PMD swap entries Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 17/29] mm/hmm: fault PMD swap entries on demand Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 18/29] mm: free PMD swap entries in zap_huge_pmd() Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 19/29] mm/madvise: free PMD swap entries with MADV_FREE Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` Usama Arif [this message]
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 21/29] mm/madvise: keep PMD swap entries whole for MADV_GUARD_INSTALL/REMOVE Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 22/29] mm/mincore: report PMD swap-cache residency Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 23/29] mm/khugepaged: treat PMD swap entries as mapped THPs Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 24/29] mm: handle PMD swap entries in MADV_WILLNEED Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 25/29] mm: handle PMD swap entries in UFFDIO_MOVE Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 26/29] mm: don't PTE-batch a swap-in over a hardware-poisoned subpage Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 27/29] mm: handle PMD swap entry faults on swap-in Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 28/29] mm: install PMD swap entries on swap-out Usama Arif
2026-09-14 12:28 ` [RESEND v7 29/29] selftests/mm: add PMD swap entry tests Usama Arif
2026-09-15 3:32 ` [RESEND v7 00/29] mm: PMD-level swap entries for anonymous THPs Andrew Morton
2026-09-15 14:09 ` Usama Arif
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