[PATCH v3 0/6] mm/mglru: clean up folio counters and flag usage

From: Kairui Song via B4 Relay

Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 13:53:45 EST


This is a cleanup series separated out from the MGLRU-FG series [1]. As
that series is getting too long in following updates, seperate out the
clean up part for easier review and merge.

No feature change is intended, except one bugfix. It mostly replaces
the open-coded bit operations scattered throughout the MGLRU code with
new helpers, with proper kdocs, sanity debug checks, and hardens a few
MGLRU functions.

A subtle generation counter leak is also found during the refactoring
and the fix is included.

Also collected review feedbacks on the cleanup part from the posted
series.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260804-mglru-fg-v1-0-4d8dad39dad6@xxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v3:
- Set PG_workingset before setting LRU refs bit to avoid any potential
under report of folio tier.
- Migrate folio's referenced status before PG_update so lockless readers
won't set stale referenced status.
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260824-mglru-flags-cleanup-v2-0-0104132114ae@xxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- Dropped the redundant LRU_GEN_MAX macro.
- Renamed folio_migrate_refs() to folio_migrate_lru_refs() and reworded
its commit message to describe the referenced state being transferred.
- Rewrote patch 6's commit message with a detailed analysis of the
anon/file accounting race.
- Dropped patch 7, it doesn't really fix anything, and might be in
conflict with other updating series.
- Collected Reviewed-by tags.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260818-mglru-flags-cleanup-v1-0-8dbbdac0d28c@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Kairui Song (6):
mm/memcontrol: make lru_zone_size atomic and simplify sanity check
mm/mglru: introduce helpers for manipulating gen and refs flags
mm/migrate: copy all referenced state via folio_migrate_lru_refs
mm/mglru: move max_seq read into walk_update_folio
mm/mglru: use explicit tier range in read_ctrl_pos()
mm/mglru: fix potential generation folio number leak

include/linux/memcontrol.h | 9 +++-
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++
mm/folio.c | 19 ++++----
mm/memcontrol.c | 18 +------
mm/migrate.c | 6 +--
mm/vmscan.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
7 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 169393fff5d1ec2690934067eeb95544ff5ebdd7
change-id: 20260818-mglru-flags-cleanup-cc49cfad654f

Best regards,
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Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>