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From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,  Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	 Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>,
	 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] mm: page_isolation: do not take slab pages for free
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:46:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027-pgalloc-ai-hotfixes-v1-7-9c7d1aca801e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027-pgalloc-ai-hotfixes-v1-0-9c7d1aca801e@kernel.org>

From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

page_is_unmovable() regards a page with a reference count of zero as free
or about to be freed. Since slab allocates frozen pages, they will
be wrongly considered to be freed if order 0 (higher-order compound
pages are caught earlier).

If such slabs are the only unmovable pages of a memory block, memory
offlining now isolates the block, this can lead to offline_pages()
looping without progress.

Thus detect the slab pages as removable to return -EBUSY, as would
happen before commit 9aec2fb0fd5e ("slab: allocate frozen pages").

Fixes: 9aec2fb0fd5e ("slab: allocate frozen pages")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 7 +++++++
 mm/page_isolation.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 796af1028ee2..e773a7d54165 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1847,6 +1847,13 @@ static int scan_movable_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		if (PageOffline(page) && page_count(page))
 			return -EBUSY;
 
+		/*
+		 * A page that was allocated, but was not a slab page yet, when
+		 * its pageblock was isolated.
+		 */
+		if (PageSlab(page))
+			return -EBUSY;
+
 		folio = page_folio(page);
 		if (!folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
 			continue;
diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
index 5aaad037384e..f4f0571607ab 100644
--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ bool page_is_unmovable(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Slab pages are frozen: do not take their reference count of zero
+	 * for that of a free page.
+	 */
+	if (PageSlab(page))
+		return true;
+
 	/*
 	 * We can't use page_count without pin a page
 	 * because another CPU can free compound page.

-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-27 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-27 15:46 [PATCH 0/9] mm, page_alloc: several stable fixes Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm/page_alloc: don't undo a racing start_isolate_page_range() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:48   ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 18:31   ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm/page_alloc: clear ->private of deferred free pages Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 18:38   ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: page_frag: refill the cache for large fragments Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm/page_alloc: keep the pagesets of an empty zone Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm, page_alloc: pass zone pointer to trace_reclaim_retry_zone Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 18:35   ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 18:39   ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm/compaction: trust zone->contiguous only in the span Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) [this message]
2026-10-27 21:04   ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: page_isolation: do not take slab pages for free Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm/memory_hotplug: resize zones under their seqlock Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm/page_alloc: check pageblock pfns under span seqlock Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)

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