Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm/compaction: skip isolate mlocked folios when compact_unevictable_allowed=0
From: Alexander Krabler <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-26 13:43:06
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On 6/26/26 11:38, Wandun wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On 6/26/26 16:45, Alexander Krabler wrote:quoted
However, we were not able to reproduce the actual race (mlockall() process waiting on a migration PTE), not in the past, not now. Might be hard to trigger that race.Not hard to trigger that case, I added a debug message, such as below, lots of messages occur in a few second. diff --cc mm/memory.c index ff338c2abe92,ff338c2abe92..6552b3b14f78--- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c@@@ -4768,6 -4768,6 +4768,8 @@@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_faul if (softleaf_is_migration(entry)) { migration_entry_wait(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->address); + if (!strcmp(current->comm, "repro")) + pr_err("============== hit ================\n"); } else if (softleaf_is_device_exclusive(entry)) { vmf->page = softleaf_to_page(entry); ret = remove_device_exclusive_entry(vmf);
I have a kprobe on migration_entry_wait set and logged into a ftrace buffer
(including kernel stacktrace).
Yes, this function is hit, but only inside the mmap-syscall, which is okay,
memory allocation is not realtime-safe.
repro-2090 [002] d.... 811.129549: frt_migration_entry_wait: (migration_entry_wait+0x0/0x100)
repro-2090 [002] d.... 811.129553: <stack trace>
=> migration_entry_wait
=> __handle_mm_fault
=> handle_mm_fault
=> __get_user_pages
=> populate_vma_page_range
=> __mm_populate
=> vm_mmap_pgoff
=> ksys_mmap_pgoff
=> __arm64_sys_mmap
=> el0_svc_common.constprop.0
=> do_el0_svc
=> el0_svc
=> el0t_64_sync_handler
=> el0t_64_sync
The original race was an instruction abort interrupt out of nothing due
to the migration PTE set by kcompactd.
And these kind of races I see quite often on non mlockall()-processes,
but can't reproduce on memory locked processes.
Example:
podman-832 [000] d.... 812.447820: frt_migration_entry_wait: (migration_entry_wait+0x0/0x100)
podman-832 [000] d.... 812.447823: <stack trace>
=> migration_entry_wait
=> __handle_mm_fault
=> handle_mm_fault
=> do_page_fault
=> do_translation_fault
=> do_mem_abort
=> el0_da
=> el0t_64_sync_handler
=> el0t_64_sync
Thanks,
Alexander
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