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mbind(2) holds down_write of current task's mmap_lock throughout
(exclusive because it needs to set the new mempolicy on the vmas);
migrate_pages(2) holds down_read of pid's mmap_lock throughout.

They both hold mmap_lock across the internal migrate_pages(), under which
all new page allocations (huge or small) are made.  I'm nervous about it;
and migrate_pages() certainly does not need mmap_lock itself.  It's done
this way for mbind(2), because its page allocator is vma_alloc_folio() or
alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma(), both of which depend on vma and address.

Now that we have alloc_pages_mpol(), depending on (refcounted) memory
policy and interleave index, mbind(2) can be modified to use that or
alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(), and then not need mmap_lock across the
internal migrate_pages() at all: add alloc_migration_target_by_mpol() to
replace mbind's new_page().

(After that change, alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma() is used by nothing but a
userfaultfd functi...