From: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>,
Linu Cherian <linu.cherian@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 01/20] hugetlb: Don't restore vmemmap of non-HVOed folios on bulk restore error
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 00:21:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003002123.505555-2-jthoughton@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003002123.505555-1-jthoughton@google.com>
When hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folios() fails, it stops processing the
list, so folio_list may still contain folios that were never vmemmap
optimized, e.g. because HVO failed when they were allocated. Their
hugetlb flag has already been cleared by remove_hugetlb_folio().
If no folios could be restored, bulk_vmemmap_restore_error() then calls
hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio() on every folio left on folio_list,
including those, which trips the !folio_test_hugetlb() check in
__hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio():
page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
WARNING: mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c:503 at __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio+0x270/0x300
...
__hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio+0x270/0x300 (P)
hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio+0x1c/0x30
update_and_free_pages_bulk+0x2c0/0x368
__nr_hugepages_store_common+0x2e8/0x3f0
Otherwise this is benign: the restore is a no-op returning success for
non-optimized folios, which are then freed as intended.
Skip the restore for folios that are not vmemmap optimized; they can be
freed right away.
This is very unlikely to happen without fault injection, as it requires
both HVO and a subsequent vmemmap restore to fail.
Fixes: cfb8c75099db ("hugetlb: perform vmemmap restoration on a list of pages")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a1b51251103b..4dac7ed1df57 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1613,9 +1613,14 @@ static void bulk_vmemmap_restore_error(struct hstate *h,
* page is made a surplus page and removed from the list.
* If are able to restore vmemmap and free one hugetlb page, we
* quit processing the list to retry the bulk operation.
+ *
+ * Folios whose vmemmap was never optimized (e.g. because HVO
+ * failed when they were allocated) can be freed right away;
+ * remove_hugetlb_folio() has already cleared their hugetlb flag.
*/
list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, t_folio, folio_list, lru)
- if (hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio)) {
+ if (folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio) &&
+ hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio)) {
list_del(&folio->lru);
spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
add_hugetlb_folio(h, folio, true);
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 0:21 [PATCH v2 00/20] Another attempt at HVO support on arm64 James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` James Houghton [this message]
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] arm64/pgtable: Clear AF with LDCLR on supported systems James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Always flush TLB if needed upon PTE remapping James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Leave pages partially HVOed upon restore failure James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Use try_update_vmemmap_pte to update in-use PTEs James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Allow architectures to dynamically disallow HVO James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Disable HVO sysctl if arch doesn't support HVO James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] hugetlb: Fully initialize tail struct pages of non-pre-HVOed bootmem folios James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Allow architectures to make HVO enablement boot-time only James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Expose whether HVO is enabled to architecture code James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] arm64: Add bbm_through_af capability James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] arm64: Implement try_update_vmemmap_pte using the AF trick James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] arm64: Support hugetlb vmemmap optimization James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] hugetlb_vmemmap: Add fault injection for in-place vmemmap PTE updates James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] selftests/mm: Add HugeTLB vmemmap optimization stress test James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 16/20 DO-NOT-MERGE] hugetlb_vmemmap: Use try_populate_vmemmap_pmd for replacing in-use PMDs James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 17/20 DO-NOT-MERGE] arm64: Implement try_populate_vmemmap_pmd using AF trick James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 18/20 DO-NOT-MERGE] arm64: Drop BBML3 requirement for HVO James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 19/20 DO-NOT-MERGE] hugetlb_vmemmap: Add fault injection for in-place vmemmap PMD splits James Houghton
2026-10-03 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 20/20 DO-NOT-MERGE] selftests/mm: Add HVO pmd-split fault injection tests James Houghton
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