kernel/mm/page_alloc.c, branch linux-6.14.y

mm/page_alloc.c: avoid infinite retries caused by cpuset race

2025-05-29T09:14:05Z

commit e05741fb10c38d70bbd7ec12b23c197b6355d519 upstream. __alloc_pages_slowpath has no change detection for ac->nodemask in the part of retry path, while cpuset can modify it in parallel. For some processes that set mempolicy as MPOL_BIND, this results ac->nodemask changes, and then the should_reclaim_retry will judge based on the latest nodemask and jump to retry, while the get_page_from_freelist only traverses the zonelist from ac->preferred_zoneref, which selected by a expired nodemask and may cause infinite retries in some cases cpu 64: __alloc_pages_slowpath { /* ..... */ retry: /* ac->nodemask = 0x1, ac->preferred->zone->nid = 1 */ if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD) wake_all_kswapds(order, gfp_mask, ac); /* cpu 1: cpuset_write_resmask update_nodemask update_nodemasks_hier update_tasks_nodemask mpol_rebind_task mpol_rebind_policy mpol_rebind_nodemask // mempolicy->nodes has been modified, // which ac->nodemask point to */ /* ac->nodemask = 0x3, ac->preferred->zone->nid = 1 */ if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags, did_some_progress > 0, &no_progress_loops)) goto retry; } Simultaneously starting multiple cpuset01 from LTP can quickly reproduce this issue on a multi node server when the maximum memory pressure is reached and the swap is enabled Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416082405.20988-1-zhangtianyang@loongson.cn Fixes: c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice") Signed-off-by: Tianyang Zhang Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page_alloc: fix race condition in unaccepted memory handling

2025-05-22T12:31:58Z

commit fefc075182275057ce607effaa3daa9e6e3bdc73 upstream. The page allocator tracks the number of zones that have unaccepted memory using static_branch_enc/dec() and uses that static branch in hot paths to determine if it needs to deal with unaccepted memory. Borislav and Thomas pointed out that the tracking is racy: operations on static_branch are not serialized against adding/removing unaccepted pages to/from the zone. Sanity checks inside static_branch machinery detects it: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at kernel/jump_label.c:276 __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked+0x8e/0xa0 The comment around the WARN() explains the problem: /* * Warn about the '-1' case though; since that means a * decrement is concurrent with a first (0->1) increment. IOW * people are trying to disable something that wasn't yet fully * enabled. This suggests an ordering problem on the user side. */ The effect of this static_branch optimization is only visible on microbenchmark. Instead of adding more complexity around it, remove it altogether. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250506133207.1009676-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Fixes: dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250506092445.GBaBnVXXyvnazly6iF@fat_crate.local Reported-by: Borislav Petkov Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: [6.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page_alloc: speed up fallbacks in rmqueue_bulk()

2025-05-18T06:26:08Z

commit 90abee6d7895d5eef18c91d870d8168be4e76e9d upstream. The test robot identified c2f6ea38fc1b ("mm: page_alloc: don't steal single pages from biggest buddy") as the root cause of a 56.4% regression in vm-scalability::lru-file-mmap-read. Carlos reports an earlier patch, c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion"), as the root cause for a regression in worst-case zone->lock+irqoff hold times. Both of these patches modify the page allocator's fallback path to be less greedy in an effort to stave off fragmentation. The flip side of this is that fallbacks are also less productive each time around, which means the fallback search can run much more frequently. Carlos' traces point to rmqueue_bulk() specifically, which tries to refill the percpu cache by allocating a large batch of pages in a loop. It highlights how once the native freelists are exhausted, the fallback code first scans orders top-down for whole blocks to claim, then falls back to a bottom-up search for the smallest buddy to steal. For the next batch page, it goes through the same thing again. This can be made more efficient. Since rmqueue_bulk() holds the zone->lock over the entire batch, the freelists are not subject to outside changes; when the search for a block to claim has already failed, there is no point in trying again for the next page. Modify __rmqueue() to remember the last successful fallback mode, and restart directly from there on the next rmqueue_bulk() iteration. Oliver confirms that this improves beyond the regression that the test robot reported against c2f6ea38fc1b: commit: f3b92176f4 ("tools/selftests: add guard region test for /proc/$pid/pagemap") c2f6ea38fc ("mm: page_alloc: don't steal single pages from biggest buddy") acc4d5ff0b ("Merge tag 'net-6.15-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net") 2c847f27c3 ("mm: page_alloc: speed up fallbacks in rmqueue_bulk()") <--- your patch f3b92176f4f7100f c2f6ea38fc1b640aa7a2e155cc1 acc4d5ff0b61eb1715c498b6536 2c847f27c37da65a93d23c237c5 ---------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- %stddev %change %stddev %change %stddev %change %stddev \ | \ | \ | \ 25525364 ± 3% -56.4% 11135467 -57.8% 10779336 +31.6% 33581409 vm-scalability.throughput Carlos confirms that worst-case times are almost fully recovered compared to before the earlier culprit patch: 2dd482ba627d (before freelist hygiene): 1ms c0cd6f557b90 (after freelist hygiene): 90ms next-20250319 (steal smallest buddy): 280ms this patch : 8ms [jackmanb@google.com: comment updates] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/D92AC0P9594X.3BML64MUKTF8Z@google.com [hannes@cmpxchg.org: reset rmqueue_mode in rmqueue_buddy() error loop, per Yunsheng Lin] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250409140023.GA2313@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407180154.63348-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion") Fixes: c2f6ea38fc1b ("mm: page_alloc: don't steal single pages from biggest buddy") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Carlos Song Tested-by: Carlos Song Tested-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202503271547.fc08b188-lkp@intel.com Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman Tested-by: Shivank Garg Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: [6.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page_alloc: don't steal single pages from biggest buddy

2025-05-18T06:26:08Z

commit c2f6ea38fc1b640aa7a2e155cc1c0410ff91afa2 upstream. The fallback code searches for the biggest buddy first in an attempt to steal the whole block and encourage type grouping down the line. The approach used to be this: - Non-movable requests will split the largest buddy and steal the remainder. This splits up contiguity, but it allows subsequent requests of this type to fall back into adjacent space. - Movable requests go and look for the smallest buddy instead. The thinking is that movable requests can be compacted, so grouping is less important than retaining contiguity. c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion") enforces freelist type hygiene, which restricts stealing to either claiming the whole block or just taking the requested chunk; no additional pages or buddy remainders can be stolen any more. The patch mishandled when to switch to finding the smallest buddy in that new reality. As a result, it may steal the exact request size, but from the biggest buddy. This causes fracturing for no good reason. Fix this by committing to the new behavior: either steal the whole block, or fall back to the smallest buddy. Remove single-page stealing from steal_suitable_fallback(). Rename it to try_to_steal_block() to make the intentions clear. If this fails, always fall back to the smallest buddy. The following is from 4 runs of mmtest's thpchallenge. "Pollute" is single page fallback, "steal" is conversion of a partially used block. The numbers for free block conversions (omitted) are comparable. vanilla patched @pollute[unmovable from reclaimable]: 27 106 @pollute[unmovable from movable]: 82 46 @pollute[reclaimable from unmovable]: 256 83 @pollute[reclaimable from movable]: 46 8 @pollute[movable from unmovable]: 4841 868 @pollute[movable from reclaimable]: 5278 12568 @steal[unmovable from reclaimable]: 11 12 @steal[unmovable from movable]: 113 49 @steal[reclaimable from unmovable]: 19 34 @steal[reclaimable from movable]: 47 21 @steal[movable from unmovable]: 250 183 @steal[movable from reclaimable]: 81 93 The allocator appears to do a better job at keeping stealing and polluting to the first fallback preference. As a result, the numbers for "from movable" - the least preferred fallback option, and most detrimental to compactability - are down across the board. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250225001023.1494422-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page_alloc: fix memory accept before watermarks gets initialized

2025-03-17T00:40:26Z

Watermarks are initialized during the postcore initcall. Until then, all watermarks are set to zero. This causes cond_accept_memory() to incorrectly skip memory acceptance because a watermark of 0 is always met. This can lead to a premature OOM on boot. To ensure progress, accept one MAX_ORDER page if the watermark is zero. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310082855.2587122-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Fixes: dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Tested-by: Farrah Chen Reported-by: Farrah Chen Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta Cc: Ashish Kalra Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" Cc: Thomas Lendacky Cc: [6.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_alloc: fix uninitialized variable

2025-03-06T05:36:20Z

The variable "compact_result" is not initialized in function __alloc_pages_slowpath(). It causes should_compact_retry() to use an uninitialized value. Initialize variable "compact_result" with the value COMPACT_SKIPPED. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xee8/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4416 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xee8/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4416 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xa4c/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4752 alloc_pages_mpol+0x4cd/0x890 mm/mempolicy.c:2270 alloc_frozen_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2341 [inline] alloc_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2361 [inline] folio_alloc_noprof+0x1dc/0x350 mm/mempolicy.c:2371 filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xa6/0x440 mm/filemap.c:1019 __filemap_get_folio+0xb9a/0x1840 mm/filemap.c:1970 grow_dev_folio fs/buffer.c:1039 [inline] grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1105 [inline] __getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1131 [inline] bdev_getblk+0x2c9/0xab0 fs/buffer.c:1431 getblk_unmovable include/linux/buffer_head.h:369 [inline] ext4_getblk+0x3b7/0xe50 fs/ext4/inode.c:864 ext4_bread_batch+0x9f/0x7d0 fs/ext4/inode.c:933 __ext4_find_entry+0x1ebb/0x36c0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1627 ext4_lookup_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:1729 [inline] ext4_lookup+0x189/0xb40 fs/ext4/namei.c:1797 __lookup_slow+0x538/0x710 fs/namei.c:1793 lookup_slow+0x6a/0xd0 fs/namei.c:1810 walk_component fs/namei.c:2114 [inline] link_path_walk+0xf29/0x1420 fs/namei.c:2479 path_openat+0x30f/0x6250 fs/namei.c:3985 do_filp_open+0x268/0x600 fs/namei.c:4016 do_sys_openat2+0x1bf/0x2f0 fs/open.c:1428 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1443 [inline] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1459 [inline] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1454 [inline] __x64_sys_openat+0x2a1/0x310 fs/open.c:1454 x64_sys_call+0x36f5/0x3c30 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:258 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Local variable compact_result created at: __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x66/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4218 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xa4c/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4752 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_ED1032321D6510B145CDBA8CBA0093178E09@qq.com Reported-by: syzbot+0cfd5e38e96a5596f2b6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0cfd5e38e96a5596f2b6 Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone"

2025-03-06T05:36:19Z

Commit 96a5c186efff ("mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone") removes the protection of lower zones from allocations targeting memory-less high zones. This had an unintended impact on the pattern of reclaims because it makes the high-zone-targeted allocation more likely to succeed in lower zones, which adds pressure to said zones. I.e, the following corresponding checks in zone_watermark_ok/zone_watermark_fast are less likely to trigger: if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx]) return false; As a result, we are observing an increase in reclaim and kswapd scans, due to the increased pressure. This was initially observed as increased latency in filesystem operations when benchmarking with fio on a machine with some memory-less zones, but it has since been associated with increased contention in locks related to memory reclaim. By reverting this patch, the original performance was recovered on that machine. The original commit was introduced as a clarification of the /proc/zoneinfo output, so it doesn't seem there are usecases depending on it, making the revert a simple solution. For reference, I collected vmstat with and without this patch on a freshly booted system running intensive randread io from an nvme for 5 minutes. I got: rpm-6.12.0-slfo.1.2 -> pgscan_kswapd 5629543865 Patched -> pgscan_kswapd 33580844 33M scans is similar to what we had in kernels predating this patch. These numbers is fairly representative of the workload on this machine, as measured in several runs. So we are talking about a 2-order of magnitude increase. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226032258.234099-1-krisman@suse.de Fixes: 96a5c186efff ("mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone") Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

2025-01-28T12:48:37Z

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net, drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function. Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata. This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the proc_handlers. Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command: Spatch: virtual patch @ depends on !(file in "net") disable optional_qualifier @ identifier table_name != { watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, iwcm_ctl_table, ucma_ctl_table, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table }; @@ + const struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... }; sed: sed --in-place \ -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \ kernel/utsname_sysctl.c Reviewed-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) # for kernel/trace/ Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen # SCSI Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong # xfs Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T02:36:23Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs. - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount inc & dec - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use large folios other than PMD-sized ones - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of the mapletree code - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a few minor code cleanups - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a test for the mapletree code - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new mm/vma.c - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page allocator - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are accumulated: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code when optional compiler warnings are enabled - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the pkeys tests - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to estimate application working set size - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare use-after-free race is fixed - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in improvements in accounting accuracy - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs file interface logic - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in response to DAMOS actions - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs is completed - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but also inclusion (allowing) behavior - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory descriptors - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build time with swap-on-zram - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that mmap_region() can be made MM-internal - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park updates DAMON documentation - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and migration - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags() tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us() seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin() mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page() mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch() mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type() selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy() kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags() selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue ...

mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment

2025-01-26T04:22:45Z

The comment removed in this patch originally belonged to the build_zonelists_in_zone_order() function, which was introduced by commit f0c0b2b808f2 ("change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logic"). Later, commit c9bff3eebc09 ("mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE") removed build_zonelists_in_zone_order() but left its comment behind. Subsequently, commit 9d3be21bf9c0 ("mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization") moved the node_order variable into build_zonelists(), making the comment originally belonged to build_zonelists_in_zone_order() appear as if it were part of build_zonelists(). Remove this misleading comment. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250115041634.63387-1-yuntao.wang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton