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[RFC PATCH v4 02/27] mm,cpuset: gate allocations from N_MEMORY_PRIVATE behind __GFP_PRIVATE

From: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Date: 2026-02-22 08:49:01
Also in: cgroups, damon, linux-cxl, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: control group (cgroup), control group - cpuset, memory management - core, the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný, Waiman Long, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

N_MEMORY_PRIVATE nodes hold device-managed memory that should not be
used for general allocations. Without a gating mechanism, any allocation
could land on a private node if it appears in the task's mems_allowed.

Introduce __GFP_PRIVATE that explicitly opts in to allocation from
N_MEMORY_PRIVATE nodes.

Add the GFP_PRIVATE compound mask (__GFP_PRIVATE | __GFP_THISNODE)
for callers that explicitly target private nodes to help prevent
fallback allocations from DRAM.

Update cpuset_current_node_allowed() to filter out N_MEMORY_PRIVATE
nodes unless __GFP_PRIVATE is set.

In interrupt context, only N_MEMORY nodes are valid.

Update cpuset_handle_hotplug() to include N_MEMORY_PRIVATE nodes in
the effective mems set, allowing cgroup-level control over private
node access.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
---
 include/linux/gfp_types.h      | 15 +++++++++++++--
 include/trace/events/mmflags.h |  4 ++--
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp_types.h b/include/linux/gfp_types.h
index 3de43b12209e..ac375f9a0fc2 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp_types.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ enum {
 	___GFP_IO_BIT,
 	___GFP_FS_BIT,
 	___GFP_ZERO_BIT,
-	___GFP_UNUSED_BIT,	/* 0x200u unused */
+	___GFP_PRIVATE_BIT,
 	___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM_BIT,
 	___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM_BIT,
 	___GFP_WRITE_BIT,
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ enum {
 #define ___GFP_IO		BIT(___GFP_IO_BIT)
 #define ___GFP_FS		BIT(___GFP_FS_BIT)
 #define ___GFP_ZERO		BIT(___GFP_ZERO_BIT)
-/* 0x200u unused */
+#define ___GFP_PRIVATE		BIT(___GFP_PRIVATE_BIT)
 #define ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM	BIT(___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM_BIT)
 #define ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM	BIT(___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM_BIT)
 #define ___GFP_WRITE		BIT(___GFP_WRITE_BIT)
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ enum {
  * %__GFP_ACCOUNT causes the allocation to be accounted to kmemcg.
  *
  * %__GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT causes slab allocation to have no object extension.
+ *
+ * %__GFP_PRIVATE allows allocation from N_MEMORY_PRIVATE nodes (e.g., compressed
+ * memory, accelerator memory). Without this flag, allocations are restricted
+ * to N_MEMORY nodes only. Used by migration/demotion paths when explicitly
+ * targeting private nodes.
  */
 #define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE)
 #define __GFP_WRITE	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE)
@@ -146,6 +151,7 @@ enum {
 #define __GFP_THISNODE	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_THISNODE)
 #define __GFP_ACCOUNT	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ACCOUNT)
 #define __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT   ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT)
+#define __GFP_PRIVATE	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_PRIVATE)
 
 /**
  * DOC: Watermark modifiers
@@ -367,6 +373,10 @@ enum {
  * available and will not wake kswapd/kcompactd on failure. The _LIGHT
  * version does not attempt reclaim/compaction at all and is by default used
  * in page fault path, while the non-light is used by khugepaged.
+ *
+ * %GFP_PRIVATE adds %__GFP_THISNODE by default to prevent any fallback
+ * allocations to other nodes, given that the caller was already attempting
+ * to access driver-managed memory explicitly.
  */
 #define GFP_ATOMIC	(__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
 #define GFP_KERNEL	(__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
@@ -382,5 +392,6 @@ enum {
 #define GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT	((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
 			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
 #define GFP_TRANSHUGE	(GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_PRIVATE	(__GFP_PRIVATE | __GFP_THISNODE)
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_GFP_TYPES_H */
diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
index a6e5a44c9b42..f042cd848451 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 	TRACE_GFP_EM(HARDWALL)			\
 	TRACE_GFP_EM(THISNODE)			\
 	TRACE_GFP_EM(ACCOUNT)			\
-	TRACE_GFP_EM(ZEROTAGS)
+	TRACE_GFP_EM(ZEROTAGS)			\
+	TRACE_GFP_EM(PRIVATE)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
 # define TRACE_GFP_FLAGS_KASAN			\
@@ -73,7 +74,6 @@
 TRACE_GFP_FLAGS
 
 /* Just in case these are ever used */
-TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(___GFP_UNUSED_BIT);
 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(___GFP_LAST_BIT);
 
 #define gfpflag_string(flag) {(__force unsigned long)flag, #flag}
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 473aa9261e16..1a597f0c7c6c 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -444,21 +444,32 @@ static void guarantee_active_cpus(struct task_struct *tsk,
 }
 
 /*
- * Return in *pmask the portion of a cpusets's mems_allowed that
+ * Return in *pmask the portion of a cpuset's mems_allowed that
  * are online, with memory.  If none are online with memory, walk
  * up the cpuset hierarchy until we find one that does have some
  * online mems.  The top cpuset always has some mems online.
  *
  * One way or another, we guarantee to return some non-empty subset
- * of node_states[N_MEMORY].
+ * of node_states[N_MEMORY].  N_MEMORY_PRIVATE nodes from the
+ * original cpuset are preserved, but only N_MEMORY nodes are
+ * pulled from ancestors.
  *
  * Call with callback_lock or cpuset_mutex held.
  */
 static void guarantee_online_mems(struct cpuset *cs, nodemask_t *pmask)
 {
+	struct cpuset *orig_cs = cs;
+	int nid;
+
 	while (!nodes_intersects(cs->effective_mems, node_states[N_MEMORY]))
 		cs = parent_cs(cs);
+
 	nodes_and(*pmask, cs->effective_mems, node_states[N_MEMORY]);
+
+	for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY_PRIVATE) {
+		if (node_isset(nid, orig_cs->effective_mems))
+			node_set(nid, *pmask);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -4075,7 +4086,9 @@ static void cpuset_handle_hotplug(void)
 
 	/* fetch the available cpus/mems and find out which changed how */
 	cpumask_copy(&new_cpus, cpu_active_mask);
-	new_mems = node_states[N_MEMORY];
+
+	/* Include N_MEMORY_PRIVATE so cpuset controls access the same way */
+	nodes_or(new_mems, node_states[N_MEMORY], node_states[N_MEMORY_PRIVATE]);
 
 	/*
 	 * If subpartitions_cpus is populated, it is likely that the check
@@ -4488,10 +4501,21 @@ bool cpuset_node_allowed(struct cgroup *cgroup, int nid)
  * __alloc_pages() will include all nodes.  If the slab allocator
  * is passed an offline node, it will fall back to the local node.
  * See kmem_cache_alloc_node().
+ *
+ *
+ * Private nodes aren't eligible for these allocations, so skip them.
+ * guarantee_online_mems guaranttes at least one N_MEMORY node is set.
  */
 static int cpuset_spread_node(int *rotor)
 {
-	return *rotor = next_node_in(*rotor, current->mems_allowed);
+	int node;
+
+	do {
+		node = next_node_in(*rotor, current->mems_allowed);
+		*rotor = node;
+	} while (node_state(node, N_MEMORY_PRIVATE));
+
+	return node;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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