Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm/gup: local lru_add_drain() to avoid lru_add_drain_all()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Sep 09 2025 - 03:56:52 EST


On 09.09.25 00:16, Hugh Dickins wrote:
In many cases, if collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios() does need to
drain the LRU cache to release a reference, the cache in question is
on this same CPU, and much more efficiently drained by a preliminary
local lru_add_drain(), than the later cross-CPU lru_add_drain_all().

Marked for stable, to counter the increase in lru_add_drain_all()s
from "mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration".
Note for clean backports: can take 6.16 commit a03db236aebf ("gup:
optimize longterm pin_user_pages() for large folio") first.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 82aec6443c0a..b47066a54f52 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2287,8 +2287,8 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
struct pages_or_folios *pofs)
{
unsigned long collected = 0;
- bool drain_allow = true;
struct folio *folio;
+ int drained = 0;
long i = 0;
for (folio = pofs_get_folio(pofs, i); folio;
@@ -2307,10 +2307,17 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
continue;
}
- if (drain_allow && folio_ref_count(folio) !=
- folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) {
+ if (drained == 0 &&
+ folio_ref_count(folio) !=
+ folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) {

I would just have indented this as follows:

if (drained == 0 &&
folio_ref_count(folio) != folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1) {

Same below.

In any case logic LGTM

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers

David / dhildenb