From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
npache@redhat.com, david@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: matthew.brost@intel.com, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, rakie.kim@sk.com, byungchul@sk.com,
gourry@gourry.net, ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com,
apopple@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: migrate: requeue destination folio on deferred split queue
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 05:35:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306133556.2051251-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
During folio migration, __folio_migrate_mapping() removes the source
folio from the deferred split queue, but the destination folio is never
re-queued. This causes underutilized THPs to escape the shrinker after
NUMA migration, since they silently drop off the deferred split list.
Fix this by calling deferred_split_folio() on the destination folio
after a successful migration, for large rmappable folios.
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fixes: dafff3f4c850 ("mm: split underused THPs")
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
mm/migrate.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index ece77ccb2ec0..98d0a594f7b7 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1393,6 +1393,17 @@ static int migrate_folio_move(free_folio_t put_new_folio, unsigned long private,
if (old_page_state & PAGE_WAS_MAPPED)
remove_migration_ptes(src, dst, 0);
+ /*
+ * Requeue the destination folio on the deferred split queue if
+ * the source was a large folio that was on the queue. Without
+ * this, NUMA migration causes underutilized THPs to escape
+ * the shrinker since the source is unqueued in
+ * __folio_migrate_mapping() and the destination is never
+ * re-queued.
+ */
+ if (folio_test_large(dst) && folio_test_large_rmappable(dst))
+ deferred_split_folio(dst, false);
+
out_unlock_both:
folio_unlock(dst);
folio_set_owner_migrate_reason(dst, reason);
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 13:35 Usama Arif [this message]
2026-03-06 13:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-06 14:12 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-06 14:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-06 16:15 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-06 16:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-06 16:26 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-06 16:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-03-06 16:19 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-06 13:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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