linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v3 2/8] migrate: implement migrate_misplaced_folios

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Message-ID: <20251110052343.208768-3-bharata@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:53:37 +0530
From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@....com>
To: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
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Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 2/8] migrate: implement migrate_misplaced_folios_batch

From: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>

A common operation in tiering is to migrate multiple pages at once.
The migrate_misplaced_folio function requires one call for each
individual folio.  Expose a batch-variant of the same call for use
when doing batch migrations.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@....com>
---
 include/linux/migrate.h |  6 ++++++
 mm/migrate.c            | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index 1f0ac122c3bf..2ace66772c16 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static inline int set_movable_ops(const struct movable_operations *ops, enum pag
 int migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare(struct folio *folio,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node);
 int migrate_misplaced_folio(struct folio *folio, int node);
+int migrate_misplaced_folios_batch(struct list_head *foliolist, int node);
 #else
 static inline int migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare(struct folio *folio,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node)
@@ -113,6 +114,11 @@ static inline int migrate_misplaced_folio(struct folio *folio, int node)
 {
 	return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
 }
+static inline int migrate_misplaced_folios_batch(struct list_head *foliolist,
+						 int node)
+{
+	return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 189d0548d4ce..990a251aea33 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -2739,5 +2739,41 @@ int migrate_misplaced_folio(struct folio *folio, int node)
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&migratepages));
 	return nr_remaining ? -EAGAIN : 0;
 }
+
+/**
+ * migrate_misplaced_folios_batch - Batch variant of migrate_misplaced_folio.
+ * Attempts to migrate a folio list to the specified destination.
+ * @folio_list - Isolated list of folios to be batch-migrated.
+ * @node - The NUMA node ID to where the folios should be migrated.
+ *
+ * Caller is expected to have isolated the folios by calling
+ * migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare(), which will result in an
+ * elevated reference count on the folio.
+ *
+ * This function will un-isolate the folios, dereference them, and
+ * remove them from the list before returning.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success and -EAGAIN on failure or partial migration.
+ * 	   On return, @folio_list will be empty regardless of success/failure.
+ */
+int migrate_misplaced_folios_batch(struct list_head *folio_list, int node)
+{
+	pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
+	unsigned int nr_succeeded;
+	int nr_remaining;
+
+	nr_remaining = migrate_pages(folio_list, alloc_misplaced_dst_folio,
+				     NULL, node, MIGRATE_ASYNC,
+				     MR_NUMA_MISPLACED, &nr_succeeded);
+	if (nr_remaining)
+		putback_movable_pages(folio_list);
+
+	if (nr_succeeded) {
+		count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_PAGE_MIGRATE, nr_succeeded);
+		mod_node_page_state(pgdat, PGPROMOTE_SUCCESS, nr_succeeded);
+	}
+	BUG_ON(!list_empty(folio_list));
+	return nr_remaining ? -EAGAIN : 0;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
-- 
2.34.1