[PATCH 5/7] mm/migrate: add copy offload registration infrastructure

From: Shivank Garg

Date: Tue Apr 28 2026 - 11:54:50 EST


Add a registration interface that lets a single offload provider
(DMA, multi-threaded CPU copy, etc) take over the batch folio copy
performed by migrate_pages_batch().

The provider fills in a struct migrator with an offload_copy()
callback and calls migrate_offload_register(). Registration patches
the migrate_offload_copy() static_call and flips the
migrate_offload_enabled static branch. The migrate_offload_unregister()
reverts both.

Whether a migration reason is batch-copy eligible is decided by the
core in migrate_offload_do_batch(). A migrator may decline a particular
batch (e.g. when nr_batch is too small to amortize setup) by returning
-EOPNOTSUPP, and the move phase falls back to per-folio CPU copy.

Only one migrator can be active at a time. A second registration
returns -EBUSY, and only the active migrator can unregister itself.
The static_call dispatch is protected by SRCU so that the
synchronize_srcu() in unregister waits for all in-flight copy before
the module reference is dropped.

Co-developed-by: Mike Day <michael.day@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Day <michael.day@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/migrate_copy_offload.h | 44 +++++++++++++
mm/Kconfig | 6 ++
mm/Makefile | 1 +
mm/migrate.c | 57 +++++++++++++++--
mm/migrate_copy_offload.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/migrate_copy_offload.h
create mode 100644 mm/migrate_copy_offload.c

diff --git a/include/linux/migrate_copy_offload.h b/include/linux/migrate_copy_offload.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d68b10a84743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/migrate_copy_offload.h
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _LINUX_MIGRATE_COPY_OFFLOAD_H
+#define _LINUX_MIGRATE_COPY_OFFLOAD_H
+
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+struct list_head;
+struct module;
+
+#define MIGRATOR_NAME_LEN 32
+
+/**
+ * struct migrator - batch-copy provider for page migration.
+ * @name: name of the provider.
+ * @offload_copy: copy @folio_cnt folios from @src_list to @dst_list.
+ *
+ * The migrator may inspect @folio_cnt to decide whether the batch
+ * is worth offloading, e.g. skip when the batch is too small to
+ * amortize setup cost. If returns error, the core falls back to CPU copy.
+ *
+ * @owner: module providing the migrator.
+ */
+struct migrator {
+ char name[MIGRATOR_NAME_LEN];
+ int (*offload_copy)(struct list_head *dst_list,
+ struct list_head *src_list,
+ unsigned int folio_cnt);
+ struct module *owner;
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION_COPY_OFFLOAD
+extern struct static_key_false migrate_offload_enabled;
+extern struct srcu_struct migrate_offload_srcu;
+int migrate_offload_register(struct migrator *m);
+int migrate_offload_unregister(struct migrator *m);
+#else
+static inline int migrate_offload_register(struct migrator *m) { return -EOPNOTSUPP; }
+static inline int migrate_offload_unregister(struct migrator *m) { return -EOPNOTSUPP; }
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_MIGRATE_COPY_OFFLOAD_H */
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e8bf1e9e6ad9..325d79619680 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -647,6 +647,12 @@ config MIGRATION
config DEVICE_MIGRATION
def_bool MIGRATION && ZONE_DEVICE

+# Page-migration batch-copy offload infrastructure.
+# Selected by migrator drivers (e.g. CONFIG_DCBM_DMA).
+config MIGRATION_COPY_OFFLOAD
+ bool
+ depends on MIGRATION
+
config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
bool

diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 8ad2ab08244e..db1ac8097089 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC) += fail_page_alloc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST) += memtest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION_COPY_OFFLOAD) += migrate_copy_offload.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) += memory-tiers.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEVICE_MIGRATION) += migrate_device.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 6c2f1cb66f96..9af070f9a1f2 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+#include <linux/static_call.h>
+#include <linux/migrate_copy_offload.h>

#include <asm/tlbflush.h>

@@ -54,6 +56,51 @@

DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(migrate_offload_enabled);

+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION_COPY_OFFLOAD
+DEFINE_SRCU(migrate_offload_srcu);
+DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(migrate_offload_copy, folios_mc_copy);
+
+static bool migrate_offload_do_batch(int reason)
+{
+ if (!static_branch_unlikely(&migrate_offload_enabled))
+ return false;
+
+ switch (reason) {
+ case MR_COMPACTION:
+ case MR_SYSCALL:
+ case MR_DEMOTION:
+ case MR_NUMA_MISPLACED:
+ return true;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
+static int migrate_offload_batch_copy(struct list_head *dst_batch,
+ struct list_head *src_batch,
+ unsigned int nr_batch)
+{
+ int idx, rc;
+
+ idx = srcu_read_lock(&migrate_offload_srcu);
+ rc = static_call(migrate_offload_copy)(dst_batch, src_batch, nr_batch);
+ srcu_read_unlock(&migrate_offload_srcu, idx);
+ return rc;
+}
+#else
+static bool migrate_offload_do_batch(int reason)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+static int migrate_offload_batch_copy(struct list_head *dst_batch,
+ struct list_head *src_batch,
+ unsigned int nr_batch)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+#endif
+
static const struct movable_operations *offline_movable_ops;
static const struct movable_operations *zsmalloc_movable_ops;

@@ -1833,7 +1880,7 @@ static int migrate_pages_batch(struct list_head *from,
struct folio *folio, *folio2, *dst = NULL;
int rc, rc_saved = 0, nr_pages;
unsigned int nr_batch = 0;
- bool batch_copied = false;
+ bool do_batch = false, batch_copied = false;
LIST_HEAD(unmap_batch);
LIST_HEAD(dst_batch);
LIST_HEAD(unmap_single);
@@ -1843,6 +1890,8 @@ static int migrate_pages_batch(struct list_head *from,
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC &&
!list_empty(from) && !list_is_singular(from));

+ do_batch = migrate_offload_do_batch(reason);
+
for (pass = 0; pass < nr_pass && retry; pass++) {
retry = 0;
thp_retry = 0;
@@ -1984,8 +2033,7 @@ static int migrate_pages_batch(struct list_head *from,
nr_retry_pages += nr_pages;
break;
case 0:
- if (static_branch_unlikely(&migrate_offload_enabled) &&
- folio_supports_batch_copy(folio)) {
+ if (do_batch && folio_supports_batch_copy(folio)) {
list_move_tail(&folio->lru, &unmap_batch);
list_add_tail(&dst->lru, &dst_batch);
nr_batch++;
@@ -2017,7 +2065,8 @@ static int migrate_pages_batch(struct list_head *from,

/* Batch-copy eligible folios before the move phase */
if (!list_empty(&unmap_batch)) {
- rc = folios_mc_copy(&dst_batch, &unmap_batch, nr_batch);
+ rc = migrate_offload_batch_copy(&dst_batch, &unmap_batch,
+ nr_batch);
batch_copied = (rc == 0);
}

diff --git a/mm/migrate_copy_offload.c b/mm/migrate_copy_offload.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f837c725239
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/migrate_copy_offload.c
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
+#include <linux/migrate.h>
+#include <linux/migrate_copy_offload.h>
+#include <linux/static_call.h>
+
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(migrator_mutex);
+static struct migrator *active_migrator;
+
+DECLARE_STATIC_CALL(migrate_offload_copy, folios_mc_copy);
+
+/**
+ * migrate_offload_register - register a batch-copy provider for page migration.
+ * @m: migrator to install.
+ *
+ * Only one provider can be active at a time, returns -EBUSY if another migrator
+ * is already registered.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on failure.
+ */
+int migrate_offload_register(struct migrator *m)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ if (!m || !m->offload_copy || !m->owner)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ mutex_lock(&migrator_mutex);
+ if (active_migrator) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
+ if (!try_module_get(m->owner)) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
+ static_call_update(migrate_offload_copy, m->offload_copy);
+ active_migrator = m;
+ static_branch_enable(&migrate_offload_enabled);
+
+unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&migrator_mutex);
+
+ if (ret)
+ pr_err("migrate_offload: %s: failed to register (%d)\n",
+ m->name, ret);
+ else
+ pr_info("migrate_offload: enabled by %s\n", m->name);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(migrate_offload_register);
+
+/**
+ * migrate_offload_unregister - unregister the active batch-copy provider.
+ * @m: migrator to remove (must be the currently active one).
+ *
+ * Reverts static_call targets and waits for SRCU grace period so that
+ * no in-flight migration is still calling the driver functions before
+ * releasing the module.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on failure.
+ */
+int migrate_offload_unregister(struct migrator *m)
+{
+ struct module *owner;
+
+ mutex_lock(&migrator_mutex);
+ if (active_migrator != m) {
+ mutex_unlock(&migrator_mutex);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Disable the static branch first so new migrate_pages_batch calls
+ * won't enter the batch copy path.
+ */
+ static_branch_disable(&migrate_offload_enabled);
+ static_call_update(migrate_offload_copy, folios_mc_copy);
+ owner = active_migrator->owner;
+ active_migrator = NULL;
+ mutex_unlock(&migrator_mutex);
+
+ /* Wait for all in-flight callers to finish before module_put(). */
+ synchronize_srcu(&migrate_offload_srcu);
+ module_put(owner);
+
+ pr_info("migrate_offload: disabled by %s\n", m->name);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(migrate_offload_unregister);
--
2.43.0