From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:47:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: migrate: requeue destination folio on deferred split queue
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mm: migrate: requeue destination folio on deferred split queue

During folio migration, __folio_migrate_mapping() removes the source folio
from the deferred split queue, but the destination folio is never
re-queued.  This causes underutilized THPs to escape the shrinker after
NUMA migration, since they silently drop off the deferred split list.

Fix this by recording whether the source folio was on the deferred split
queue and its partially mapped state before move_to_new_folio() unqueues
it, and re-queuing the destination folio after a successful migration if
it was.

By the time migrate_folio_move() runs, partially mapped folios without a
pin have already been split by migrate_pages_batch().  So only two cases
remain on the deferred list at this point:
  1. Partially mapped folios with a pin (split failed).
  2. Fully mapped but potentially underused folios.  The recorded
     partially_mapped state is forwarded to deferred_split_folio() so that
     the destination folio is correctly re-queued in both cases.

Because THPs are removed from the deferred_list, THP shinker cannot
split the underutilized THPs in time.  As a result, users will show
less free memory than before.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260312104723.1351321-1-usama.arif@linux.dev
Fixes: dafff3f4c850 ("mm: split underused THPs")
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 6cc654858da65..3323fc96b1cdd 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,8 @@ static int migrate_folio_move(free_folio_t put_new_folio, unsigned long private,
 	int rc;
 	int old_page_state = 0;
 	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
+	bool src_deferred_split = false;
+	bool src_partially_mapped = false;
 	struct list_head *prev;
 
 	__migrate_folio_extract(dst, &old_page_state, &anon_vma);
@@ -1371,6 +1373,12 @@ static int migrate_folio_move(free_folio_t put_new_folio, unsigned long private,
 		goto out_unlock_both;
 	}
 
+	if (folio_order(src) > 1 &&
+	    !data_race(list_empty(&src->_deferred_list))) {
+		src_deferred_split = true;
+		src_partially_mapped = folio_test_partially_mapped(src);
+	}
+
 	rc = move_to_new_folio(dst, src, mode);
 	if (rc)
 		goto out;
@@ -1391,6 +1399,15 @@ static int migrate_folio_move(free_folio_t put_new_folio, unsigned long private,
 	if (old_page_state & PAGE_WAS_MAPPED)
 		remove_migration_ptes(src, dst, 0);
 
+	/*
+	 * Requeue the destination folio on the deferred split queue if
+	 * the source was on the queue.  The source is unqueued in
+	 * __folio_migrate_mapping(), so we recorded the state from
+	 * before move_to_new_folio().
+	 */
+	if (src_deferred_split)
+		deferred_split_folio(dst, src_partially_mapped);
+
 out_unlock_both:
 	folio_unlock(dst);
 	folio_set_owner_migrate_reason(dst, reason);