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Bing Jiao e116e19c95 mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion 
[ Upstream commit 1aceed565f ]

Patch series "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion",
v9.

This patch series addresses two issues in demote_folio_list(),
can_demote(), and next_demotion_node() in reclaim/demotion.

1. demote_folio_list() and can_demote() do not correctly check
   demotion target against cpuset.mems_effective, which will cause (a)
   pages to be demoted to not-allowed nodes and (b) pages fail demotion
   even if the system still has allowed demotion nodes.

   Patch 1 fixes this bug by updating cpuset_node_allowed() and
   mem_cgroup_node_allowed() to return effective_mems, allowing directly
   logic-and operation against demotion targets.

2. next_demotion_node() returns a preferred demotion target, but it
   does not check the node against allowed nodes.

   Patch 2 ensures that next_demotion_node() filters against the allowed
   node mask and selects the closest demotion target to the source node.

This patch (of 2):

Fix two bugs in demote_folio_list() and can_demote() due to incorrect
demotion target checks against cpuset.mems_effective in reclaim/demotion.

Commit 7d709f49ba ("vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaim")
introduces the cpuset.mems_effective check and applies it to can_demote().
However:

  1. It does not apply this check in demote_folio_list(), which leads
     to situations where pages are demoted to nodes that are
     explicitly excluded from the task's cpuset.mems.

  2. It checks only the nodes in the immediate next demotion hierarchy
     and does not check all allowed demotion targets in can_demote().
     This can cause pages to never be demoted if the nodes in the next
     demotion hierarchy are not set in mems_effective.

These bugs break resource isolation provided by cpuset.mems.  This is
visible from userspace because pages can either fail to be demoted
entirely or are demoted to nodes that are not allowed in multi-tier memory
systems.

To address these bugs, update cpuset_node_allowed() and
mem_cgroup_node_allowed() to return effective_mems, allowing directly
logic-and operation against demotion targets.  Also update can_demote()
and demote_folio_list() accordingly.

Bug 1 reproduction:
  Assume a system with 4 nodes, where nodes 0-1 are top-tier and
  nodes 2-3 are far-tier memory. All nodes have equal capacity.

  Test script:
    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
    echo +cpuset > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo "0-2" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cpuset.mems
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
    swapoff -a
    # Expectation: Should respect node 0-2 limit.
    # Observation: Node 3 shows significant allocation (MemFree drops)
    stress-ng --oomable --vm 1 --vm-bytes 150% --mbind 0,1

Bug 2 reproduction:
  Assume a system with 6 nodes, where nodes 0-2 are top-tier,
  node 3 is a far-tier node, and nodes 4-5 are the farthest-tier nodes.
  All nodes have equal capacity.

  Test script:
    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
    echo +cpuset > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
    echo "0-2,4-5" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cpuset.mems
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
    swapoff -a
    # Expectation: Pages are demoted to Nodes 4-5
    # Observation: No pages are demoted before oom.
    stress-ng --oomable --vm 1 --vm-bytes 150% --mbind 0,1,2

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-1-bingjiao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114205305.2869796-2-bingjiao@google.com
Fixes: 7d709f49ba ("vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Bing Jiao <bingjiao@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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