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[PATCH 2/5] mm: rmap: add a ZONE_DEVICE folio warning in folio_referenced()

From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: 2026-02-24 02:12:02
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, memory management - rmap (reverse mapping), the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds

The folio_referenced() is used to test whether a folio was referenced during
reclaim. Moreover, ZONE_DEVICE folios are controlled by their device driver,
have a lifetime tied to that driver, and are never placed on the LRU list.
That means we should never try to reclaim ZONE_DEVICE folios, so add a warning
to catch this unexpected behavior in folio_referenced() to avoid confusion,
as discussed in the previous thread[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/16fb7985-ec0f-4b56-91e7-404c5114f899@kernel.org/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 mm/rmap.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index bff8f222004e..be785dfc9336 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ int folio_referenced(struct folio *folio, int is_locked,
 		.invalid_vma = invalid_folio_referenced_vma,
 	};
 
+	VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(folio_is_zone_device(folio), folio);
 	*vm_flags = 0;
 	if (!pra.mapcount)
 		return 0;
-- 
2.47.3

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