[PATCH 2/2] mm/hugetlb: cap demotion at currently available free pages

From: Longlong Xia <[email protected]>

Demotion must not remove free huge pages that back existing
reservations. The sysfs path checks whether any page is available, but
passes the entire request to demote_pool_huge_page(). For example, with
two free pages and one reservation, a request for two pages removes both
and leaves the reservation without a backing page.

Cap the sysfs request by both global availability and the selected
node's free pages. Recheck global availability in
demote_pool_huge_page() before each node batch because that function
drops hugetlb_lock while restoring vmemmap and reservations can change
before the next batch.

Fixes: c0f398c3b2cf ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: batch HVO work when demoting")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Longlong Xia <[email protected]>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c       | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/hugetlb_sysfs.c | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 640df58be4e5..ae26d400ad31 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3998,6 +3998,26 @@ long demote_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *src, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed,
 		LIST_HEAD(list);
 		LIST_HEAD(surplus_list);
 		struct folio *folio, *next;
+		unsigned long nr_available, nr_target;
+
+		/*
+		 * Re-check available each node batch: the previous
+		 * batch released hugetlb_lock for vmemmap restore/split,
+		 * and a new reservation could have been added in that
+		 * window, shrinking the budget.  available is global
+		 * (resv is not per-node), so 0 means no node can
+		 * contribute -- stop the whole scan.
+		 */
+		nr_available = available_huge_pages(src);
+		if (!nr_available)
+			break;
+
+		/*
+		 * Cap this batch at the current budget; expressed as a
+		 * cumulative stop point because nr_demoted is running.
+		 */
+		nr_target = nr_demoted + min_t(unsigned long,
+				nr_to_demote - nr_demoted, nr_available);
 
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, next, &src->hugepage_freelists[node], lru) {
 			bool adjust_surplus;
@@ -4012,7 +4032,7 @@ long demote_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *src, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed,
 			if (!adjust_surplus)
 				nr_persistent++;
 
-			if (++nr_demoted == nr_to_demote)
+			if (++nr_demoted == nr_target)
 				break;
 		}
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_sysfs.c b/mm/hugetlb_sysfs.c
index 79ece91406bf..326a54b4d991 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_sysfs.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_sysfs.c
@@ -211,15 +211,15 @@ static ssize_t demote_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 		 * Check for available pages to demote each time thorough the
 		 * loop as demote_pool_huge_page will drop hugetlb_lock.
 		 */
+		nr_available = h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages;
 		if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE)
-			nr_available = h->free_huge_pages_node[nid];
-		else
-			nr_available = h->free_huge_pages;
-		nr_available -= h->resv_huge_pages;
+			nr_available = min(nr_available,
+					   h->free_huge_pages_node[nid]);
 		if (!nr_available)
 			break;
 
-		rc = demote_pool_huge_page(h, n_mask, nr_demote);
+		rc = demote_pool_huge_page(h, n_mask,
+					   min(nr_demote, nr_available));
 		if (rc < 0) {
 			err = rc;
 			break;
-- 
2.43.0