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8 daysmm/alloc_tag: replace fixed-size early PFN array with dynamic linked listHao Ge1-2/+2
Pages allocated before page_ext is available have their codetag left uninitialized. Track these early PFNs and clear their codetag in clear_early_alloc_pfn_tag_refs() to avoid "alloc_tag was not set" warnings when they are freed later. Currently a fixed-size array of 8192 entries is used, with a warning if the limit is exceeded. However, the number of early allocations depends on the number of CPUs and can be larger than 8192. Replace the fixed-size array with a dynamically allocated linked list of pfn_pool structs. Each node is allocated via alloc_page() and mapped to a pfn_pool containing a next pointer, an atomic slot counter, and a PFN array that fills the remainder of the page. The tracking pages themselves are allocated via alloc_page(), which would trigger __pgalloc_tag_add() -> alloc_tag_add_early_pfn() and recurse indefinitely. Introduce __GFP_NO_CODETAG (reuses the %__GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT bit) and pass gfp_flags through pgalloc_tag_add() so that the early path can skip recording allocations that carry this flag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260604024008.46592-1-hao.ge@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAXJP Kobryn1-4/+4
compact_gap() returns 2 << order, which is used as watermark headroom in __compaction_suitable() and as a threshold in kswapd reclaim decisions. The computed value scales exponentially by order. For order-9 THP allocations this evaluates to 1024 pages, but the compaction free scanner's working set is bounded by COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX (32 pages). The scanner stops isolating free pages once it matches the migration batch. The current gap over-reserves by 32x. On fragmented production hosts, kswapd will try to reclaim up to the gap, but it only reaches that threshold in 18% of attempts. As a result, reclaim continues in the majority of cases despite many lower-order free pages being available. The over-sized gap also causes 46% of order-9 compaction suitability checks to fail unnecessarily: the zone has sufficient free pages for the scanner to operate, but not enough to clear the inflated threshold. Cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX so the watermark headroom reflects the scanner's actual capacity. This function is used by two key heuristics. The first is when kswapd can stop high-order reclaim and downgrade to order-0 balancing, allowing kcompactd to be woken for the original higher allocation order. The second is zone suitability checking, where the smaller gap allows compaction to start sooner. Note that orders 0-4 are unaffected since their gap is already less than or equal to COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX. A/B test on v6.13-based instagram production hosts (64GB, 60s measurement): Unpatched (43 hosts) pgscan_kswapd (mean/host): ~1.6M reclaim efficiency (steal/scan): 83.8% per-compaction success (success/stall): 2.1% THP success (alloc/alloc+fallback): 4.9% forced lru_add_drain (mean/host): ~107K Patched (59 hosts) pgscan_kswapd (mean/host): ~449K reclaim efficiency (steal/scan): 91.0% per-compaction success (success/stall): 28.3% THP success (alloc/alloc+fallback): 17.2% forced lru_add_drain (mean/host): ~64K Additional tests were also performed using a workload of similar shape and based on mm-new at the time of testing. Across three 60s runs, the patch showed improvements consistent with the previous test: reduced kswapd reclaim and fewer THP fault fallbacks. Unpatched kswapd_shrink_node downgrade to order-0 (mean): 0 thp_fault_fallback (mean): 1217 pgscan_kswapd (mean): 6328 pgsteal_kswapd (mean): 5657 Patched kswapd_shrink_node downgrade to order-0 (mean): 28 thp_fault_fallback (mean): 738 pgscan_kswapd (mean): 3773 pgsteal_kswapd (mean): 3243 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260604061725.13800-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn (Meta) <jp.kobryn@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap deviceYoungjun Park1-1/+4
Patch series "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device", v8. Currently, in the uswsusp path, only the swap type value is retrieved at lookup time without holding a reference. If swapoff races after the type is acquired, subsequent slot allocations operate on a stale swap device. Additionally, grabbing and releasing the swap device reference on every slot allocation is inefficient across the entire hibernation swap path. This patch series addresses these issues: - Patch 1: Fixes the swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning the swap device from the point it is looked up until the session completes. - Patch 2: Removes the overhead of per-slot reference counting in alloc/free paths and cleans up the redundant SWP_WRITEOK check. This patch (of 2): Hibernation via uswsusp (/dev/snapshot ioctls) has a race window: after selecting the resume swap area but before user space is frozen, swapoff may run and invalidate the selected swap device. Fix this by pinning the swap device with SWP_HIBERNATION while it is in use. The pin is exclusive, which is sufficient since hibernate_acquire() already prevents concurrent hibernation sessions. The kernel swsusp path (sysfs-based hibernate/resume) uses find_hibernation_swap_type() which is not affected by the pin. It freezes user space before touching swap, so swapoff cannot race. Introduce dedicated helpers: - pin_hibernation_swap_type(): Look up and pin the swap device. Used by the uswsusp path. - find_hibernation_swap_type(): Lookup without pinning. Used by the kernel swsusp path. - unpin_hibernation_swap_type(): Clear the hibernation pin. While a swap device is pinned, swapoff is prevented from proceeding. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260323160822.1409904-1-youngjun.park@lge.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260323160822.1409904-2-youngjun.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()Hui Zhu1-1/+3
find_vm_area() can return NULL if the given address is not a valid vmalloc area. Check the return value before dereferencing it to avoid a kernel crash. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260529014130.671291-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev Fixes: 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masksKiryl Shutsemau (Meta)2-2/+41
The VMA flags bitmap is a single word today: NUM_VMA_FLAG_BITS is BITS_PER_LONG, so on 32-bit vma_flags_t holds only 32 bits. (The bitmap type exists so this can grow past BITS_PER_LONG later; until it does, anything declared above the first word is out of range on 32-bit.) The bit enum nevertheless declares some bits unconditionally above BITS_PER_LONG -- VMA_UFFD_MINOR_BIT is 41, with VM_UFFD_MINOR == VM_NONE on 32-bit so no VMA actually carries the bit. __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS feeds VMA_UFFD_MINOR_BIT to mk_vma_flags() unconditionally. On 32-bit that becomes __set_bit(41, &one_long), a write one word past the end of the single-word bitmap. The compiler folds the out-of-bounds store with wraparound (1UL << (41 % 32) == bit 9) into the first word; bit 9 is already in __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS so the mask happens to come out right today, but it is an out-of-bounds write all the same, and any high-numbered bit whose mod-BITS_PER_LONG position is otherwise unused would silently OR an extra bit into the mask. Rather than feed bit numbers that may not exist on the current build to mk_vma_flags(), build the mask from whole per-mode masks that collapse to EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS when their feature is unavailable. Add mk_vma_flags_from_masks() for that, and define VMA_UFFD_MISSING / _WP / _MINOR alongside the VM_UFFD_* flags, gating VMA_UFFD_MINOR on the same config as VM_UFFD_MINOR (which implies 64BIT, where bit 41 fits). An out-of-range bit is then never materialised, on any arch, and the in-range fast path stays a compile-time constant. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260529172331.356655-7-kas@kernel.org Fixes: 9ea35a25d51b ("mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type") Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm: delete stale comment about cachelinesBrendan Jackman1-2/+0
These comments have been wrong since commit a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") added NR_FREE_PAGES_BLOCKS. Since nobody has complained about it in the last year, it seems unlikely these comments were particularly useful anyway, so delete them. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601-zone_stat_item-comment-v1-1-f452dd91d5eb@google.com Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm/compaction: respect cpusets when checking retry suitabilityfujunjie1-1/+1
should_compact_retry() handles COMPACT_SKIPPED by asking compaction_zonelist_suitable() whether reclaim can make a later compaction attempt worthwhile. That answer is used for the current allocation, so it should follow the same zone eligibility rules as the allocation itself. When cpusets are enabled, allocator slowpath decisions are marked with ALLOC_CPUSET. The allocation path, direct compaction and reclaim retry all skip zones rejected by __cpuset_zone_allowed(). compaction_zonelist_suitable() does not apply that filter. It only walks ac->zonelist/ac->nodemask, so it can return true because a zone that is not usable for the current allocation would pass __compaction_suitable(). That does not let the allocation use the disallowed zone. Later allocation and direct compaction paths still apply cpuset filtering. However, it can make should_compact_retry() retry based on memory that this allocation cannot use. Pass gfp_mask down and apply the same ALLOC_CPUSET check in compaction_zonelist_suitable(). This keeps the retry decision aligned with the zones that the allocation is allowed to use. A temporary debugfs probe was also used to call the old and new compaction_zonelist_suitable() predicates in the same two-node NUMA guest. The task was restricted to mems=0 while ac->nodemask covered nodes 0-1. After putting pressure on node0, node0 failed __compaction_suitable() for order-10 and node1 passed it, but node1 was rejected by __cpuset_zone_allowed(). In that state the old predicate returned true and the patched predicate returned false. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_F59F2BA2CC5779308E10DF54593C736D3E0A@qq.com Fixes: 435b3894e742 ("mm:page_alloc: fix the NULL ac->nodemask in __alloc_pages_slowpath()") Signed-off-by: fujunjie <fujunjie1@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm: switch deferred split shrinker to list_lruJohannes Weiner3-21/+12
The deferred split queue handles cgroups in a suboptimal fashion. The queue is per-NUMA node or per-cgroup, not the intersection. That means on a cgrouped system, a node-restricted allocation entering reclaim can end up splitting large pages on other nodes: alloc/unmap deferred_split_folio() list_add_tail(memcg->split_queue) set_shrinker_bit(memcg, node, deferred_shrinker_id) for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(restricted_nodes) mem_cgroup_iter() shrink_slab(node, memcg) shrink_slab_memcg(node, memcg) if test_shrinker_bit(memcg, node, deferred_shrinker_id) deferred_split_scan() walks memcg->split_queue The shrinker bit adds an imperfect guard rail. As soon as the cgroup has a single large page on the node of interest, all large pages owned by that memcg, including those on other nodes, will be split. list_lru properly sets up per-node, per-cgroup lists. As a bonus, it streamlines a lot of the list operations and reclaim walks. It's used widely by other major shrinkers already. Convert the deferred split queue as well. The list_lru per-memcg heads are instantiated on demand when the first object of interest is allocated for a cgroup, by calling folio_memcg_alloc_deferred(). Add calls to where splittable pages are created: anon faults, swapin faults, khugepaged collapse. These calls create all possible node heads for the cgroup at once, so the migration code (between nodes) doesn't need any special care. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=n] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/202605281620.lc3rtkBm-lkp@intel.com [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix cgroup.memory=nokmem handling] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ah9PGv12mqai84ES@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527204757.2544958-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm: list_lru: introduce folio_memcg_list_lru_alloc()Johannes Weiner1-0/+27
memcg_list_lru_alloc() is called every time an object that may end up on the list_lru is created. It needs to quickly check if the list_lru heads for the memcg already exist, and allocate them when they don't. Doing this with folio objects is tricky: folio_memcg() is not stable and requires either RCU protection or pinning the cgroup. But it's desirable to make the existence check lightweight under RCU, and only pin the memcg when we need to allocate list_lru heads and may block. In preparation for switching the THP shrinker to list_lru, add a helper function for allocating list_lru heads coming from a folio. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527204757.2544958-8-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm: list_lru: introduce caller locking for additions and deletionsJohannes Weiner1-0/+43
Locking is currently internal to the list_lru API. However, a caller might want to keep auxiliary state synchronized with the LRU state. For example, the THP shrinker uses the lock of its custom LRU to keep PG_partially_mapped and vmstats consistent. To allow the THP shrinker to switch to list_lru, provide normal and irqsafe locking primitives as well as caller-locked variants of the addition and deletion functions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527204757.2544958-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-08mm/nodemask: correctly describe nodemask operation return typesJoshua Hahn1-9/+9
Commit 0dfe54071d7c8 ("nodemask: Fix return values to be unsigned") changed a number of nodemask operations that used to return int to returning a bool instead. However, it did not update the comment block that described these functions, leaving the documentation incorrect. Fix the comment block to accurately describe the functions. Also fix a typo (unsigend --> unsigned), and fix a callsite in mempolicy.c that did not get updated during the conversion. No functional changes intended; changes are purely cosmetic. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260529202755.1846800-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm: document the folio refcount a little betterMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-0/+18
Expand the documentation of folio_ref_count() to talk about expected, temporary and spurious refcounts as well as the concept of freezing. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260526200032.353868-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04userfaultfd: make functions that are not used outside uffd staticMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-36/+0
After merging fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c, several functions that were previously shared between the two files are now only used within mm/userfaultfd.c. Make them static and remove their declarations from include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260523173759.3964908-3-rppt@kernel.org Assisted-by: Copilot:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/mglru: use folio_mark_accessed to replace folio_set_activeBarry Song (Xiaomi)1-1/+1
MGLRU gives high priority to folios mapped in page tables. As a result, folio_set_active() is invoked for all folios read during page faults. In practice, however, readahead can bring in many folios that are never accessed via page tables. A previous attempt by Lei Liu proposed introducing a separate LRU for readahead[1] to make readahead pages easier to reclaim, but that approach is likely over-engineered. Before commit 4d5d14a01e2c ("mm/mglru: rework workingset protection"), folios with PG_active were always placed in the youngest generation, leading to over-protection and increased refaults. After that commit, PG_active folios are placed in the second youngest generation, which is still too optimistic given the presence of readahead. In contrast, the classic active/inactive scheme is more conservative. This patch switches to using folio_mark_accessed() and begins prefaulted file folios from the second oldest generation instead of active generations. We should also adjust the following accordingly: - WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE: aligned with setting active for refaulted workingset folios; - lru_gen_folio_seq(): place (pre)faulted file folios into the second oldest generation; - promote second-scanned folios to workingset in folio_check_references(): we now have to depend on folio_lru_refs() > 1, since we previously relied on PG_referenced being set during the first scan, but PG_referenced is now set earlier. On x86, running a kernel build inside a memcg with a 1GB memory limit using 20 threads. w/o patch: real 1m50.764s user 25m32.305s sys 4m0.012s pswpin: 1333245 pswpout: 4366443 pgpgin: 6962592 pgpgout: 17780712 swpout_zero: 1019603 swpin_zero: 14764 refault_file: 287794 refault_anon: 1347963 w/ patch: real 1m48.879s user 25m29.224s sys 3m37.421s pswpin: 568480 pswpout: 2322657 pgpgin: 4073416 pgpgout: 9613408 swpout_zero: 593275 swpin_zero: 9118 refault_file: 262505 refault_anon: 577550 active/inactive LRU: real 1m49.928s user 25m28.196s sys 3m40.740s pswpin: 463452 pswpout: 2309119 pgpgin: 4438856 pgpgout: 9568628 swpout_zero: 743704 swpin_zero: 7244 refault_file: 562555 refault_anon: 470694 Lance and Xueyuan made a huge contribution to this patch through testing. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260526130938.66253-1-baohua@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250916072226.220426-1-liulei.rjpt@vivo.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Tested-by: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: wangzicheng <wangzicheng@honor.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Lei Liu <liulei.rjpt@vivo.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/damon: fix missing parens in macro argumentsMaksym Shcherba1-4/+4
Patch series "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc", v2. This patch (of 2): The DAMON iterator macros do not wrap their pointer arguments with parentheses. This can cause build failures when the argument is a complex expression due to operator precedence issues. Add missing parentheses around the arguments in the following macros to prevent potential build failures: - damon_for_each_region() - damon_for_each_region_from() - damon_for_each_region_safe() - damos_for_each_quota_goal() Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260521202020.126500-1-maksym.shcherba@lnu.edu.ua Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260521202020.126500-2-maksym.shcherba@lnu.edu.ua Signed-off-by: Maksym Shcherba <maksym.shcherba@lnu.edu.ua> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-3.1-Pro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/damon/core: hide damon_destroy_region()SeongJae Park1-1/+0
damon_destroy_region() is being used by only DAMON core, but exposed to DAMON API callers. Exposing something that is not really being used by others will only increase the maintenance cost. Hide it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260522154026.80546-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/damon/core: hide damon_insert_region()SeongJae Park1-11/+0
damon_insert_region() is being used by only DAMON core, but exposed to DAMON API callers. Exposing something that is not really being used by others will only increase the maintenance cost. Hide it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260522154026.80546-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/damon/core: hide damon_add_region()SeongJae Park1-1/+0
damon_add_region() is being used by only DAMON core, but exposed to DAMON API callers. Exposing something that is not really being used by others will only increase the maintenance cost. Hide it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260522154026.80546-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/vma: eliminate mmap_action->error_hook, introduce error_overrideLorenzo Stoakes1-6/+3
Rather than providing a hook, simplify things by providing the ability to override mmap action errors. This allows us to more carefully validate the value provided and thus ensure only a valid error code is specified, and simplifies the interface. This way, we eliminate all hooks but mmap_prepare and allow only mmap actions to be specified (which core mm controls). This significantly improves robustness and eliminates any unnecessary code duplication in driver mmap hooks. We also update the /dev/mem logic (the only user) to use mmap_action->error_override instead. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/55d13f7d016b827c459946d46a56105635be111c.1780397980.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04mm/vma: remove mmap_action->success_hookLorenzo Stoakes1-10/+0
This hook was introduced to work around code that seemed to absolutely require access to a VMA pointer upon mmap(). However, providing this hook leaves a backdoor to drivers getting access to the very thing mmap_prepare eliminates - a pointer to the VMA. Let's solve this contradiction by removing it. The key intended user was hugetlb, however it seems that the best course now is to avoid allowing all drivers the ability to work around mmap_prepare, and find a different solution there. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f79434e6d30af6d92999be6b76e197f1847105fa.1780397980.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04drivers/char/mem: eliminate unnecessary use of success_hookLorenzo Stoakes1-0/+5
Patch series "remove mmap_action success, error hooks", v3. The mmap_action->success_hook was a strange beast added to enable code which appeared to absolutely require access to a VMA pointer to work correctly. Primarily this was for hugetlb, however a different approach will be taken there, as clearly more work is required to figure out a sensible way of converting hugetlb to use mmap_prepare. The other user was the memory char driver, specifically /dev/zero which has the unusual property of explicitly setting file-backed VMAs anonymous. Providing the success hook was always foolish, as it allowed drivers a way to workaround the restriction that they should not access a pointer to a not-yet-correctly-initialised VMA - which defeats the purpose of the mmap_prepare work. We can achieve the same thing in memory char driver without needing the success hook, so this series removes that, then removes the success hook altogether. The error hook is also unnecessary - the motivation for this was for functions which need to override the error code when performing an mmap action in order to avoid breaking userspace. We can achieve this by just providing a field for the error code. Doing this means we don't have to worry about the hook doing anything odd. We also add a check to ensure the error code is in fact valid. Again the memory char driver is the only current user of this, so this series updates it to use that. After this change mmap_action has no custom hooks at all, which seems rather more cromulent than before. This patch (of 3): /dev/zero, uniquely, marks memory mapped there as anonymous. This is currently achieved using the mmap_action->success_hook. However this hook circumvents the abstraction of VMA initialisation so it's preferable to do things a different way. To achieve this, this patch firstly defaults the VMA descriptor's vm_ops field to the dummy VMA operations, which is what file-backed VMAs default this field to. That way, we can detect whether a driver sets this field to NULL in order to mark it anonymous. We then introduce vma_desc_set_anonymous() to do this explicitly, and invoke it in mmap_zero_prepare(). This way, any driver which does not explicitly set desc->vm_ops, retains the dummy vm_ops as they would previously. We also update set_vma_user_defined_fields() to make clear that we are either setting vma->vm_ops to what is provided by the driver (or defaulting to dummy_vm_ops if not set), or setting the VMA anonymous. This lays the groundwork for removing the success hook. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1780397980.git.ljs@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/010579cca6787cf7bb057ab1f7228978b10601c8.1780397980.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/sysfs: setup damon_filter->memcg_id from pathSeongJae Park1-0/+1
Find and set the memcg_id for damon_filter from the user-passed memory cgroup path when updating the DAMON input parameters. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-27-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: introduce DAMON_FILTER_TYPE_MEMCGSeongJae Park1-0/+6
Belonging memory cgoup is another data attribute that can be useful to monitor. Introduce a new DAMON filter type, namely DAMON_FILTER_TYPE_MEMCG, for monitoring of this attribute. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-23-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: introduce damon_ops->apply_probesSeongJae Park1-0/+4
Extend damon_operations struct with a new callback, namely apply_probes. The callback will be invoked for data attributes monitoring. More specifically, the callback will apply damon_probe objects to each region and update the per-region per-probe counters for the number of encountered probe-positive samples. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: introduce damon_region->probe_hitsSeongJae Park1-0/+4
Add an array for the per-region per-probe positive samples count. For simple and efficient implementation, add a limit to the number of data probes and set the array to support only the limited number of counters. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: introduce damon_filterSeongJae Park1-0/+36
Define a data structure for constructing damon_probe's attributes check, namely damon_filter. It is very similar to damos_filter but works only for monitoring purposes. Also embed that into damon_probe, implement essential handling of the link, with fundamental helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: embed damon_probe objects in damon_ctxSeongJae Park1-0/+9
Let damon_probe objects be able to be installed on a given damon_ctx, by adding a linked list header for storing the objects. Add initialization and cleanup of the new field with helper functions, too. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-02mm/damon/core: introduce struct damon_probeSeongJae Park1-0/+9
Patch series "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring". TL; DR ====== Extend DAMON for monitoring general data attributes other than accesses. The short term motivation is lightweight page type (e.g., belonging cgroup) aware monitoring. In long term, this will help extending DAMON for multiple access events capture primitives (e.g., page faults and PMU) and eventually pivotting DAMON to a "Data Attributes Monitoring and Operations eNgine" in long term. Background: High Cost of Page Level Properties Monitoring ========================================================= DAMON is initially introduced as a Data Access MONitor. It has been extended for not only access monitoring but also data access-aware system operations (DAMOS). But still the monitoring part is only for data accesses. Data access patterns is good information, but some users need more holistic views. Particularly, users want to show the access pattern information together with the types of the memory. For example, users who work for making huge pages efficiently want to know how much of DAMON-found hot/cold regions are backed by huge pages. Users who run multiple workloads with different cgroups want to know how much of DAMON-found hot/cold regions belong to specific cgroups. For the user demand, we developed a DAMOS extension for page level properties based monitoring [1], which has landed on 6.14. Using the feature, users can inform the page level data properties that they are interested in, in a flexible format that uses DAMOS filters. Then, DAMON applies the filters to each folio of the entire DAMON region and lets users know how many bytes of memory in each DAMON region passed the given filters. This gives page level detailed and deterministic information to users. But, because the operation is done at page level, the overhead is proportional to the memory size. It was useful for test or debugging purposes on a small number of machines. But it was obviously too heavy to be enabled always on all machines running the real user workloads. For real world workloads, it was recommended to use the feature with user-space controlled sampling approaches. For example, users could do the page level monitoring only once per hour, on randomly selected one percent of machines of their fleet. If the runtime and the size of the fleet is long and big enough, it should provide statistically meaningful data. But users are too busy to implement such controls on their own. Data Attributes Monitoring ========================== Extend DAMON to monitor not only data accesses, but also general data attributes. Do the extension while keeping the main promise of DAMON, the bounded and best-effort minimum overhead. Allow users to specify what data attributes in addition to the data access they want to monitor. Users can install one 'data probe' per data attribute of their interest for this purpose. The 'data probe' should be able to be applied to any memory, and determine if the given memory has the appropriate data attribute. E.g., if memory of physical address 42 belongs to cgroup A. Each 'data probe' is configured with filters that are very similar to the DAMOS filters. When DAMON checks if each sampling address memory of each region is accessed since the last check, it applies data probes if registered. Same to the number of access check-positive samples accounting (nr_accesses), it accounts the number of each data probe-positive samples in another per-region counters array, namely 'probe_hits'. When DAMON resets nr_accesses every aggregation interval, it resets 'probe_hits' together. Users can read 'probe_hits' just before the values are reset. In this way, users can know how many hot/cold memory regions have data attributes of their interest. E.g., 30 percent of this system's hot memory is belonging to cgroup A, and 80 percent of the cgroup A-belonging hot memory is backed by huge pages. Patches Sequence ================ First eight patches implement the core feature, interface and the working support. Patch 1 introduces data probe data structure, namely damon_probe. Patch 2 extends damon_ctx for installing data probes. Patch 3 introduces another data structure for filters of each data probe, namely damon_filter. Patch 4 updates damon_ctx commit function to handle the probes. Patch 5 extends damon_region for the per-region per-probe positive samples counter, namely probe_hits. Patch 6 extends damon_operations for applying probes on the underlying DAMON operations implementation. Patch 7 updates kdamond_fn() to invoke the probes applying callback. Patch 8 finally implements the probes support on paddr ops. Ten changes for user interface (patches 9-18) come next. Patches 9-13 implements sysfs directories and files for setting data probes, namely probes directory, probe directory, filters directory, filter directory and filter directory internal files, respectively. Patch 14 connects the user inputs that are made via the sysfs files to DAMON core. Following three patches (patches 15-17) implement sysfs directories and files for showing the probe_hits to users, namely probes directory, probe directory and hits files, respectively. Patch 18 introduces a new tracepoint for showing the probe_hits via tracefs. Patch 19 adds a selftest for the sysfs files. Patches 20 and 21 documents the design and usage of the new feature, respectively. Seven additional patches (patches 22-28) for monitoring belonging memory cgroup follow. Depending on the feedback, this part might be separated to another series in future. Patch 22 defines the DAMON filter type for the new attribute, namely DAMON_FILTER_TYPE_MEMCG. Patch 23 add the support on paddr ops. Patch 24 updates the sysfs interface for setup of the target memcg. Patch 25 move code for easy reuse of the filter target memcg setup. Patch 26 connects the user input to the core layer. Finally, patches 27 and 28 update the design and usage documents for the memcg attribute monitoring support. Discussion ========== This allows the page properties monitoring with overhead that is low enough to be enabled always on real world workloads. Because the sampling time for access check is reused for data attributes check, the upper-bounded and best-effort minimum overhead of DAMON is kept. Because the sampling memory for access check is reused for data attributes check, additional overhead is minimum. Still DAMOS-based page level properties monitoring should be useful, because it provides a deterministic page level information. When in doubt of the sampling based information, running DAMOS-based one together and comparing the results would be useful, for debugging and tuning. Future Works: Mid Term ======================== This version of implementation is limiting the maximum number of data probes to four. I will try to find a way to remove the limit in future. I personally think it should be enough for common use cases, though, and therefore not giving high priority at the moment. Future Works: Long Term ======================= There are user requests for extending DAMON with detailed access information, for example, per-CPUs/threads/read/writes monitoring. For that, I was working [2] on extending DAMON to use page fault events as another access check primitives, and making the infrastructure flexible for future use of yet another access check primitive. Actually there is another ongoing work [3] for extending DAMON with PMU events. The motivation of the work is reducing the overhead, though. In my work [2], I was introducing a new interface for access sampling primitives control. Now I think this data probe interface can be used for that, too. That is, data access becomes just one type of data attribute. Also, pg_idle-confirmed access, page fault-confirmed access, and PMU event-confirmed access will be different types of data attributes. The regions adjustment mechanism is currently working based on the access information. That's because DAMON is designed for data access monitoring. That is, data access information is the primary interest, and therefore DAMON adjusts regions in a way that can best-present the information. Once data access becomes just one of data attributes, there is no reason to think data access that special. There might be some users not interested in access at all but want to know the location of memory of specific type. Data probes interface will allow doing that. Further, we could extend the interface to let users set any data attribute as the 'primary' attribute. Then, DAMON will split and merge regions in a way that can best-present the 'primary' attributes. DAMOS will also be extended, to specify targets based on not only the data access pattern, but all user-registered data attributes. From this stage, we may be able to call DAMON as a "Data Attributes Monitoring and Operations eNgine". This patch (of 28): Introduce a data structure for data attribute probe. It is just a linked list header at this step. It will be extended in a way that it can determine if a given memory has a specific data attribute. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260518234119.97569-2-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250106193401.109161-1-sj@kernel.org [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251208062943.68824-1-sj@kernel.org/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260423004211.7037-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com [3] Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.des