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mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
authorKiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:07:11 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:51:31 +0000 (11:51 -0700)
commitab521b4142aa41fdf74efc20e2b1806f35dbc64b
tree9ba941932dd18a126538abb9a7b8cb5c3799e507
parent357b92761d942432c90aeeb965f9eb0c94466921
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios

The kernel currently does not mlock large folios when adding them to rmap,
stating that it is difficult to confirm that the folio is fully mapped and
safe to mlock it.

This leads to a significant undercount of Mlocked in /proc/meminfo,
causing problems in production where the stat was used to estimate system
utilization and determine if load shedding is required.

However, nowadays the caller passes a number of pages of the folio that
are getting mapped, making it easy to check if the entire folio is mapped
to the VMA.

mlock the folio on rmap if it is fully mapped to the VMA.

Mlocked in /proc/meminfo can still undercount, but the value is closer the
truth and is useful for userspace.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250923110711.690639-7-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/rmap.c