Re: [Patch mm-hotfixes v4] mm/page_vma_mapped: fix device-private PMD handling

From: Lance Yang

Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 22:59:44 EST




On 2026/6/27 10:07, Wei Yang wrote:
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Hi David

I did a little adjustment like below. Want to check with you at first.


>From 048ecd33673ec649e168fbbb97749a7c0e344fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:03:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tmp

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
index 2ccbabfb2cc17..ed2a23a90e8dd 100644
--- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
+++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
@@ -243,21 +243,31 @@ bool page_vma_mapped_walk(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
*/
pmde = pmdp_get_lockless(pvmw->pmd);

- if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde) || pmd_is_migration_entry(pmde)) {
+ if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde) || pmd_is_migration_entry(pmde) ||
+ pmd_is_device_private_entry(pmde)) {
pvmw->ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pvmw->pmd);
pmde = *pvmw->pmd;
- if (!pmd_present(pmde)) {
+ if (pmd_is_migration_entry(pmde)) {
softleaf_t entry;


How about:
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(pmde);

- if (!thp_migration_supported() ||
- !(pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION))
+ if (!(pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION))
return not_found(pvmw);
entry = softleaf_from_pmd(pmde);

could be removed.

+ if (!check_pmd(softleaf_to_pfn(entry), pvmw))
+ return not_found(pvmw);
+ return true;
+ } else if (pmd_is_device_private_entry(pmde)) {
+ softleaf_t entry;

The same.


- if (!softleaf_is_migration(entry) ||
- !check_pmd(softleaf_to_pfn(entry), pvmw))
+ if (pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION)
+ return not_found(pvmw);
+ entry = softleaf_from_pmd(pmde);
+ if (!check_pmd(softleaf_to_pfn(entry), pvmw))
return not_found(pvmw);
return true;
+ } else if (!pmd_present(pmde) ){
+ return not_found(pvmw);
}
if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(pmde))) {
if (pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION)

How about merge this with above? And put at the first case?

Below is what it looks like:

Why add more churn to a fix with a stable tag? Cleanup can come later no?

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