[PATCH 0/4] mm: reject zone device folios in more folio walkers
Gregory Price <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:47:10 -0400
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Several LRU-oriented mm walkers resolve the folio backing a PMD/hugetlb entry (or a physical pfn) and then reclaim, age, migrate, or lazyfree it without ever checking for ZONE_DEVICE memory. This series adds missing folio_is_zone_device() rejections, matching the checks that comparable walkers already perform. The changes fall into two groups: 1) Genuine gaps: - mm/huge_memory, mm/madvise: the !pmd_present branch above these sites only filters device-private entries (which are non-present). A present zone device PMD (e.g. device-coherent) would still reach the folio and be lazyfreed / aged / paged out. Add an explicit check. - mm/mempolicy: queue_folios_pmd() can see a present zone device PMD (e.g. device-coherent) and queue it for migration. 2) Defensive / consistency: - mm/damon: damon_get_folio() already excludes zone device memory implicitly (pfn_to_online_page(), lru checks). The explicit check is added in the single damon_get_folio() chokepoint so every DAMON caller is covered uniformly and the guarantee is stated explicitly. - mm/mempolicy: queue_folios_hugetlb() cannot see zone device memory (hugetlb folios are never ZONE_DEVICE). We add the check to keep all three mempolicy walkers consistent. No crash reproducer - this is a correctness/hardening cleanup found by inspection. All checks are placed after the folio is resolved and before it is acted upon, on paths that already hold the relevant page-table lock, so no locking or refcount changes are involved. Gregory Price (4): mm/damon: defensively skip zone device folios in damon_get_folio() mm/huge_memory: skip zone device folios in madvise_free_huge_pmd() mm/madvise: skip zone device folios in cold/pageout PMD range mm/mempolicy: skip zone device folios when queueing folios mm/damon/ops-common.c | 3 ++- mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++++ mm/madvise.c | 3 +++ mm/mempolicy.c | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.55.0