[PATCH 1/2] mm/filemap: place page-cache folios via an explicit mempolicy

[Gregory Price]

Page-cache allocations have no mempolicy of their own and implicitly
follow first-touch task mempolicy via the page allocator.

Codify this preference explicitly in filemap.c, rather than taking an
implicit behavior from the page allocator.  No functional change; it
keeps pagecache placement stable across the following change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 5af62e6abca5..d419d09a58c1 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/error-injection.h>
@@ -1010,7 +1011,9 @@ struct folio *filemap_alloc_folio_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
 
 		return folio;
 	}
-	return folio_alloc_noprof(gfp, order);
+	/* page cache defaults to first-accessor task mempolicy for placement */
+	return folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(gfp, order, get_task_policy(current),
+			NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, numa_node_id());
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_alloc_folio_noprof);
 #endif
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