linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/khugepaged: do synchronous writeback for MADV

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Message-ID: <27920b64-240d-40f6-a02a-0a8c433ca9e1@lucifer.local>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:48:33 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: "Garg, Shivank" <shivankg@....com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
        Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>, Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
        Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Branden Moore <Branden.Moore@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/khugepaged: do synchronous writeback for
 MADV_COLLAPSE

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 01:10:03AM +0530, Garg, Shivank wrote:
> I bisected the crash on mm-unstable
>
> b14d61d8fe442b1cc2d7591cf040a6dcd7fe2dd8 is the first bad commit
> commit b14d61d8fe442b1cc2d7591cf040a6dcd7fe2dd8
> Author: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> Date:   Sat Nov 8 17:08:18 2025 +0000
>
>     mm: eliminate is_swap_pte() when softleaf_from_pte() suffices
>
>     In cases where we can simply utilise the fact that softleaf_from_pte()
>     treats present entries as if they were none entries and thus eliminate
>     spurious uses of is_swap_pte(), do so.
>
>     No functional change intended.

Ah fun :)

Thanks, this is very likely a bug that I am about to fix in the series that
was reported on review.

Could you try the attached fix-patch please?

Note that this might not apply against mm-unstable, in which case replace
'softleaf' with 'leafent' :) as there was a rename in v2.

Cheers, Lorenzo

----8<----
>From ab4d93d299f0a0ca3f1fa5e75b2ac646695b632e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:46:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixup

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
---
 include/linux/leafops.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/leafops.h b/include/linux/leafops.h
index a464a7e08c76..325cc87c3363 100644
--- a/include/linux/leafops.h
+++ b/include/linux/leafops.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline softleaf_t softleaf_from_pte(pte_t pte)
 {
 	softleaf_t arch_entry;

-	if (pte_present(pte))
+	if (pte_present(pte) || pte_none())
 		return softleaf_mk_none();

 	pte = pte_swp_clear_flags(pte);
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static inline softleaf_t softleaf_from_pmd(pmd_t pmd)
 {
 	softleaf_t arch_entry;

-	if (pmd_present(pmd))
+	if (pmd_present(pmd) || pmd_none(pmd))
 		return softleaf_mk_none();

 	if (pmd_swp_soft_dirty(pmd))
--
2.51.0

Thanks, Lorenzo