[PATCH 03/25] mm/fbatch: temporarily disable lazyfree and mlock+munlock batching

From: Hugh Dickins

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 10:03:12 EST


It will not matter if we occasionally get activation or deactivation
wrong; but a mistaken lazyfree (MADV_FREE) would likely cause dataloss.
So disable its batching while reworking the per-cpu fbatch handling,
then re-enable it with more thought afterwards.

Similarly disable mlock+munlock batching temporarily: they will need
some redesign before re-enabling. Just insert one disabling line for
now, leaving the rest of the code as it was, for consideration later.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/folio.c | 2 ++
mm/mlock.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/folio.c b/mm/folio.c
index b2bce6b77498..a7010ae3edff 100644
--- a/mm/folio.c
+++ b/mm/folio.c
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ static void __folio_batch_add_and_move(struct folio_batch __percpu *fbatch,
local_lock(&cpu_fbatches.lock);

if (!folio_batch_add(this_cpu_ptr(fbatch), folio) ||
+ /* XXX Temporarily disable lazyfree batching */
+ fbatch == &cpu_fbatches.lru_lazyfree ||
!folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled())
folio_batch_move_lru(this_cpu_ptr(fbatch), move_fn);

diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index efa6716e4dfb..14c02e155d68 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ void mlock_folio(struct folio *folio)

folio_get(folio);
if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, mlock_lru(folio)) ||
+ true || /* XXX Temporarily disable mlock batching */
!folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled())
mlock_folio_batch(fbatch);
local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock);
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ void mlock_new_folio(struct folio *folio)

folio_get(folio);
if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, mlock_new(folio)) ||
+ true || /* XXX Temporarily disable mlock_new batching */
!folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled())
mlock_folio_batch(fbatch);
local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock);
@@ -299,6 +301,7 @@ void munlock_folio(struct folio *folio)
*/
folio_get(folio);
if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, folio) ||
+ true || /* XXX Temporarily disable munlock batching */
!folio_may_be_lru_cached(folio) || lru_cache_disabled())
mlock_folio_batch(fbatch);
local_unlock(&mlock_fbatch.lock);
--
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