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vmw_balloon: indicate success when effectively deflating during migration
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:44:55 +0000 (14:44 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:46:17 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
When migrating a balloon page, we first deflate the old page to then
inflate the new page.

However, if inflating the new page succeeded, we effectively deflated the
old page, reducing the balloon size.

In that case, the migration actually worked: similar to migrating+
immediately deflating the new page.  The old page will be freed back to
the buddy.

Right now, the core will leave the page be marked as isolated (as we
returned an error).  When later trying to putback that page, we will run
into the WARN_ON_ONCE() in balloon_page_putback().

That handling was changed in commit 3544c4faccb8 ("mm/balloon_compaction:
stop using __ClearPageMovable()"); before that change, we would have
tolerated that way of handling it.

To fix it, let's just return 0 in that case, making the core effectively
just clear the "isolated" flag + freeing it back to the buddy as if the
migration succeeded.  Note that the new page will also get freed when the
core puts the last reference.

Note that this also makes it all be more consistent: we will no longer
unisolate the page in the balloon driver while keeping it marked as being
isolated in migration core.

This was found by code inspection.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251014124455.478345-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 3544c4faccb8 ("mm/balloon_compaction: stop using __ClearPageMovable()")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com>
Cc: Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c

index 6df51ee8db621905d38061e2dee8fafbf03151ee..cc1d18b3df5ca9192ae55f90569dc87f699b70ac 100644 (file)
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ static int vmballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
 {
        unsigned long status, flags;
        struct vmballoon *b;
-       int ret;
+       int ret = 0;
 
        b = container_of(b_dev_info, struct vmballoon, b_dev_info);
 
@@ -1796,17 +1796,15 @@ static int vmballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
                 * A failure happened. While we can deflate the page we just
                 * inflated, this deflation can also encounter an error. Instead
                 * we will decrease the size of the balloon to reflect the
-                * change and report failure.
+                * change.
                 */
                atomic64_dec(&b->size);
-               ret = -EBUSY;
        } else {
                /*
                 * Success. Take a reference for the page, and we will add it to
                 * the list after acquiring the lock.
                 */
                get_page(newpage);
-               ret = 0;
        }
 
        /* Update the balloon list under the @pages_lock */
@@ -1817,7 +1815,7 @@ static int vmballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
         * If we succeed just insert it to the list and update the statistics
         * under the lock.
         */
-       if (!ret) {
+       if (status == VMW_BALLOON_SUCCESS) {
                balloon_page_insert(&b->b_dev_info, newpage);
                __count_vm_event(BALLOON_MIGRATE);
        }