Re: [PATCH] fixup: mm/rmap: extend rmap and migration support device-private entries

From: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)

Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 08:07:22 EST


On 15.11.25 01:28, Balbir Singh wrote:
Follow the pattern used in remove_migration_pte() in
remove_migration_pmd(). Process the migration entries and if the entry
type is device private, override the pmde with a device private entry
and set the soft dirty and uffd_wp bits with the pmd_swp_mksoft_dirty
and pmd_swp_mkuffd_wp

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@xxxxxx>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@xxxxxx>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@xxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@xxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This fixup should be squashed into the patch "mm/rmap: extend rmap and
migration support" of mm/mm-unstable

mm/huge_memory.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9dda8c48daca..50ba458efcab 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -4698,16 +4698,6 @@ void remove_migration_pmd(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, struct page *new)
folio_get(folio);
pmde = folio_mk_pmd(folio, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
- if (folio_is_device_private(folio)) {
- if (pmd_write(pmde))
- entry = make_writable_device_private_entry(
- page_to_pfn(new));
- else
- entry = make_readable_device_private_entry(
- page_to_pfn(new));
- pmde = swp_entry_to_pmd(entry);
- }
-
if (pmd_swp_soft_dirty(*pvmw->pmd))
pmde = pmd_mksoft_dirty(pmde);
if (is_writable_migration_entry(entry))
@@ -4720,6 +4710,23 @@ void remove_migration_pmd(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, struct page *new)
if (folio_test_dirty(folio) && is_migration_entry_dirty(entry))
pmde = pmd_mkdirty(pmde);
+ if (folio_is_device_private(folio)) {
+ swp_entry_t entry;

It's a bit nasty to have the same variable shadowed here.

We could reuse the existing entry by handling the code more similar to remove_migration_pte(): determine RMAP_EXCLUSIVE earlier.

+
+ if (pmd_write(pmde))
+ entry = make_writable_device_private_entry(
+ page_to_pfn(new));
+ else
+ entry = make_readable_device_private_entry(
+ page_to_pfn(new));
+ pmde = swp_entry_to_pmd(entry);
+
+ if (pmd_swp_soft_dirty(*pvmw->pmd))
+ pmde = pmd_swp_mksoft_dirty(pmde);
+ if (pmd_swp_uffd_wp(*pvmw->pmd))
+ pmde = pmd_swp_mkuffd_wp(pmde);
+ }
+
if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;

I guess at some point we could separate both parts completely (no need to do all this work on pmdb before the folio_is_device_private(folio) check, so this could be

if (folio_is_device_private(folio)) {
...
} else {
entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(*pvmw->pmd);
folio_get(folio);
...
}

That is something for another day though, and remove_migration_pte() should be cleaned up then as well.

--
Cheers

David