FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 98c6d259319ecf6e8d027abd3f14b81324b8c0ad
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025092158-payee-omega-5893@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 98c6d259319ecf6e8d027abd3f14b81324b8c0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 15:15:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration

Patch series "mm: better GUP pin lru_add_drain_all()", v2.

Series of lru_add_drain_all()-related patches, arising from recent mm/gup migration report from Will Deacon.

This patch (of 5):

Will Deacon reports:-

When taking a longterm GUP pin via pin_user_pages(), __gup_longterm_locked() tries to migrate target folios that should not be longterm pinned, for example because they reside in a CMA region or movable zone. This is done by first pinning all of the target folios anyway, collecting all of the longterm-unpinnable target folios into a list, dropping the pins that were just taken and finally handing the list off to migrate_pages() for the actual migration.

It is critically important that no unexpected references are held on the folios being migrated, otherwise the migration will fail and pin_user_pages() will return -ENOMEM to its caller. Unfortunately, it is relatively easy to observe migration failures when running pKVM (which uses pin_user_pages() on crosvm's virtual address space to resolve stage-2 page faults from the guest) on a 6.15-based Pixel 6 device and this results in the VM terminating prematurely.

In the failure case, 'crosvm' has called mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) on its mapping of guest memory prior to the pinning. Subsequently, when pin_user_pages() walks the page-table, the relevant 'pte' is not present and so the faulting logic allocates a new folio, mlocks it with mlock_folio() and maps it in the page-table.

Since commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 ("mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock_page() batch by pagevec"), mlock/munlock operations on a folio (formerly page), are deferred. For example, mlock_folio() takes an additional reference on the target folio before placing it into a per-cpu 'folio_batch' for later processing by mlock_folio_batch(), which drops the refcount once the operation is complete. Processing of the batches is coupled with the LRU batch logic and can be forcefully drained with lru_add_drain_all() but as long as a folio remains unprocessed on the batch, its refcount will be elevated.

This deferred batching therefore interacts poorly with the pKVM pinning scenario as we can find ourselves in a situation where the migration code fails to migrate a folio due to the elevated refcount from the pending mlock operation.

Hugh Dickins adds:-

!folio_test_lru() has never been a very reliable way to tell if an lru_add_drain_all() is worth calling, to remove LRU cache references to make the folio migratable: the LRU flag may be set even while the folio is held with an extra reference in a per-CPU LRU cache.

5.18 commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 may have made it more unreliable. Then 6.11 commit 33dfe9204f29 ("mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch") tried to make it reliable, by moving LRU flag clearing; but missed the mlock/munlock batches, so still unreliable as reported.

And it turns out to be difficult to extend 33dfe9204f29's LRU flag clearing to the mlock/munlock batches: if they do benefit from batching, mlock/munlock cannot be so effective when easily suppressed while !LRU.

Instead, switch to an expected ref_count check, which was more reliable all along: some more false positives (unhelpful drains) than before, and never a guarantee that the folio will prove migratable, but better.

Note on PG_private_2: ceph and nfs are still using the deprecated PG_private_2 flag, with the aid of netfs and filemap support functions. Although it is consistently matched by an increment of folio ref_count, folio_expected_ref_count() intentionally does not recognize it, and ceph folio migration currently depends on that for PG_private_2 folios to be rejected. New references to the deprecated flag are discouraged, so do not add it into the collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() calculation: but longterm pinning of transiently PG_private_2 ceph and nfs folios (an uncommon case) may invoke a redundant lru_add_drain_all(). And this makes easy the backport to earlier releases: up to and including 6.12, btrfs also used PG_private_2, but without a ref_count increment.

Note for stable backports: requires 6.16 commit 86ebd50224c0 ("mm:
add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation").

index adffe663594d..82aec6443c0a 100644
@@ -2307,7 +2307,8 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (!folio_test_lru(folio) && drain_allow) {
+		if (drain_allow && folio_ref_count(folio) !=
+				   folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) {
 			lru_add_drain_all();
 			drain_allow = false;
 		}

From: Shivank Garg <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 86ebd50224c0734d965843260d0dc057a9431c61 ]

Patch series " JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" v5.

This patchset addresses a warning that occurs during memory compaction due to JFS's missing migrate_folio operation. The warning was introduced by commit 7ee3647243e5 ("migrate: Remove call to ->writepage") which added explicit warnings when filesystem don't implement migrate_folio.

The syzbot reported following [1]:
jfs_metapage_aops does not implement migrate_folio

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5861 at mm/migrate.c:955 fallback_migrate_folio mm/migrate.c:953 [inline]
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5861 at mm/migrate.c:955 move_to_new_folio+0x70e/0x840 mm/migrate.c:1007
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5861 Comm: syz-executor280 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-next-20250411-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
  RIP: 0010:fallback_migrate_folio mm/migrate.c:953 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:move_to_new_folio+0x70e/0x840 mm/migrate.c:1007

To fix this issue, this series implement metapage_migrate_folio() for JFS which handles both single and multiple metapages per page configurations.

While most filesystems leverage existing migration implementations like filemap_migrate_folio(), buffer_migrate_folio_norefs() or buffer_migrate_folio() (which internally used folio_expected_refs()), JFS's metapage architecture requires special handling of its private data during migration. To support this, this series introduce the folio_expected_ref_count(), which calculates external references to a folio from page/swap cache, private data, and page table mappings.

This standardized implementation replaces the previous ad-hoc folio_expected_refs() function and enables JFS to accurately determine whether a folio has unexpected references before attempting migration.

Implement folio_expected_ref_count() to calculate expected folio reference counts from:
- Page/swap cache (1 per page)
- Private data (1)
- Page table mappings (1 per map)

While originally needed for page migration operations, this improved implementation standardizes reference counting by consolidating all refcount contributors into a single, reusable function that can benefit any subsystem needing to detect unexpected references to folios.

The folio_expected_ref_count() returns the sum of these external references without including any reference the caller itself might hold. Callers comparing against the actual folio_ref_count() must account for their own references separately.

Stable-dep-of: 98c6d259319e ("mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration")

---
 include/linux/mm.h | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/migrate.c       | 22 ++++---------------
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

index deeb535f920c8..41f5c88bdf3bc 100644
@@ -2200,6 +2200,61 @@ static inline bool folio_likely_mapped_shared(struct folio *folio)
 	return atomic_read(&folio->_mapcount) > 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * folio_expected_ref_count - calculate the expected folio refcount
+ * @folio: the folio
+ *
+ * Calculate the expected folio refcount, taking references from the pagecache,
+ * swapcache, PG_private and page table mappings into account. Useful in
+ * combination with folio_ref_count() to detect unexpected references (e.g.,
+ * GUP or other temporary references).
+ *
+ * Does currently not consider references from the LRU cache. If the folio
+ * was isolated from the LRU (which is the case during migration or split),
+ * the LRU cache does not apply.
+ *
+ * Calling this function on an unmapped folio -- !folio_mapped() -- that is
+ * locked will return a stable result.
+ *
+ * Calling this function on a mapped folio will not result in a stable result,
+ * because nothing stops additional page table mappings from coming (e.g.,
+ * fork()) or going (e.g., munmap()).
+ *
+ * Calling this function without the folio lock will also not result in a
+ * stable result: for example, the folio might get dropped from the swapcache
+ * concurrently.
+ *
+ * However, even when called without the folio lock or on a mapped folio,
+ * this function can be used to detect unexpected references early (for example,
+ * if it makes sense to even lock the folio and unmap it).
+ *
+ * The caller must add any reference (e.g., from folio_try_get()) it might be
+ * holding itself to the result.
+ *
+ * Returns the expected folio refcount.
+ */
+static inline int folio_expected_ref_count(const struct folio *folio)
+{
+	const int order = folio_order(folio);
+	int ref_count = 0;
+
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_slab(folio)))
+		return 0;
+
+	if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
+		/* One reference per page from the swapcache. */
+		ref_count += folio_test_swapcache(folio) << order;
+	} else if (!((unsigned long)folio->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS)) {
+		/* One reference per page from the pagecache. */
+		ref_count += !!folio->mapping << order;
+		/* One reference from PG_private. */
+		ref_count += folio_test_private(folio);
+	}
+
+	/* One reference per page table mapping. */
+	return ref_count + folio_mapcount(folio);
+}
+
 #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_MAKE_FOLIO_ACCESSIBLE
 static inline int arch_make_folio_accessible(struct folio *folio)
 {

index 25e7438af968a..8619aa884eaa8 100644
@@ -453,20 +453,6 @@ void pmd_migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
 }
 #endif
 
-static int folio_expected_refs(struct address_space *mapping,
-		struct folio *folio)
-{
-	int refs = 1;
-	if (!mapping)
-		return refs;
-
-	refs += folio_nr_pages(folio);
-	if (folio_test_private(folio))
-		refs++;
-
-	return refs;
-}
-
 /*
  * Replace the folio in the mapping.
  *

@@ -609,7 +595,7 @@ static int __folio_migrate_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 int folio_migrate_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 		struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio, int extra_count)
 {
-	int expected_count = folio_expected_refs(mapping, folio) + extra_count;
+	int expected_count = folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + extra_count + 1;
 
 	if (folio_ref_count(folio) != expected_count)
 		return -EAGAIN;

@@ -626,7 +612,7 @@ int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 				   struct folio *dst, struct folio *src)
 {
 	XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, folio_index(src));
-	int rc, expected_count = folio_expected_refs(mapping, src);
+	int rc, expected_count = folio_expected_ref_count(src) + 1;
 
 	if (folio_ref_count(src) != expected_count)
 		return -EAGAIN;

@@ -756,7 +742,7 @@ static int __migrate_folio(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *dst,
 			   struct folio *src, void *src_private,
 			   enum migrate_mode mode)
 {
-	int rc, expected_count = folio_expected_refs(mapping, src);
+	int rc, expected_count = folio_expected_ref_count(src) + 1;
 
 	/* Check whether src does not have extra refs before we do more work */
 	if (folio_ref_count(src) != expected_count)

@@ -844,7 +830,7 @@ static int __buffer_migrate_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
 		return migrate_folio(mapping, dst, src, mode);
 
 	/* Check whether page does not have extra refs before we do more work */
-	expected_count = folio_expected_refs(mapping, src);
+	expected_count = folio_expected_ref_count(src) + 1;
 	if (folio_ref_count(src) != expected_count)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 

2.51.0

From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 98c6d259319ecf6e8d027abd3f14b81324b8c0ad ]

Patch series "mm: better GUP pin lru_add_drain_all()", v2.

Series of lru_add_drain_all()-related patches, arising from recent mm/gup migration report from Will Deacon.

This patch (of 5):

Will Deacon reports:-

When taking a longterm GUP pin via pin_user_pages(), __gup_longterm_locked() tries to migrate target folios that should not be longterm pinned, for example because they reside in a CMA region or movable zone. This is done by first pinning all of the target folios anyway, collecting all of the longterm-unpinnable target folios into a list, dropping the pins that were just taken and finally handing the list off to migrate_pages() for the actual migration.

It is critically important that no unexpected references are held on the folios being migrated, otherwise the migration will fail and pin_user_pages() will return -ENOMEM to its caller. Unfortunately, it is relatively easy to observe migration failures when running pKVM (which uses pin_user_pages() on crosvm's virtual address space to resolve stage-2 page faults from the guest) on a 6.15-based Pixel 6 device and this results in the VM terminating prematurely.

In the failure case, 'crosvm' has called mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) on its mapping of guest memory prior to the pinning. Subsequently, when pin_user_pages() walks the page-table, the relevant 'pte' is not present and so the faulting logic allocates a new folio, mlocks it with mlock_folio() and maps it in the page-table.

Since commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 ("mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock_page() batch by pagevec"), mlock/munlock operations on a folio (formerly page), are deferred. For example, mlock_folio() takes an additional reference on the target folio before placing it into a per-cpu 'folio_batch' for later processing by mlock_folio_batch(), which drops the refcount once the operation is complete. Processing of the batches is coupled with the LRU batch logic and can be forcefully drained with lru_add_drain_all() but as long as a folio remains unprocessed on the batch, its refcount will be elevated.

This deferred batching therefore interacts poorly with the pKVM pinning scenario as we can find ourselves in a situation where the migration code fails to migrate a folio due to the elevated refcount from the pending mlock operation.

Hugh Dickins adds:-

!folio_test_lru() has never been a very reliable way to tell if an lru_add_drain_all() is worth calling, to remove LRU cache references to make the folio migratable: the LRU flag may be set even while the folio is held with an extra reference in a per-CPU LRU cache.

5.18 commit 2fbb0c10d1e8 may have made it more unreliable. Then 6.11 commit 33dfe9204f29 ("mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch") tried to make it reliable, by moving LRU flag clearing; but missed the mlock/munlock batches, so still unreliable as reported.

And it turns out to be difficult to extend 33dfe9204f29's LRU flag clearing to the mlock/munlock batches: if they do benefit from batching, mlock/munlock cannot be so effective when easily suppressed while !LRU.

Instead, switch to an expected ref_count check, which was more reliable all along: some more false positives (unhelpful drains) than before, and never a guarantee that the folio will prove migratable, but better.

Note on PG_private_2: ceph and nfs are still using the deprecated PG_private_2 flag, with the aid of netfs and filemap support functions. Although it is consistently matched by an increment of folio ref_count, folio_expected_ref_count() intentionally does not recognize it, and ceph folio migration currently depends on that for PG_private_2 folios to be rejected. New references to the deprecated flag are discouraged, so do not add it into the collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() calculation: but longterm pinning of transiently PG_private_2 ceph and nfs folios (an uncommon case) may invoke a redundant lru_add_drain_all(). And this makes easy the backport to earlier releases: up to and including 6.12, btrfs also used PG_private_2, but without a ref_count increment.

Note for stable backports: requires 6.16 commit 86ebd50224c0 ("mm:
add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation").

---
 mm/gup.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index e323843cc5dd8..e010173b24c39 100644
@@ -2354,7 +2354,8 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (!folio_test_lru(folio) && drain_allow) {
+		if (drain_allow && folio_ref_count(folio) !=
+				   folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) {
 			lru_add_drain_all();
 			drain_allow = false;
 		}

2.51.0