[PATCH mm-unstable v9 00/31] Split ptdesc from struct page

Vishal Moola (Oracle) vishal.moola at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 16:04:42 PDT 2023


The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.

This patchset introduces ptdesc, splits ptdesc from struct page, and
converts many callers of page table constructor/destructors to use ptdescs.

Ptdesc is a foundation to further standardize page tables, and eventually
allow for dynamic allocation of page tables independent of struct page.
However, the use of pages for page table tracking is quite deeply
ingrained and varied across archictectures, so there is still a lot of
work to be done before that can happen.

This applies cleanly onto the current unstable after dropping v8 of this
series.

v9:
  Fix build errors for NOMMU configs - trying to define ptdesc before
spinlock_t and struct page were defined.
  Moved definition of struct ptdesc to include/linux/mm_types.h instead
include/linux/pgtable.h

Vishal Moola (Oracle) (31):
  mm: Add PAGE_TYPE_OP folio functions
  pgtable: create struct ptdesc
  mm: add utility functions for ptdesc
  mm: Convert pmd_pgtable_page() callers to use pmd_ptdesc()
  mm: Convert ptlock_alloc() to use ptdescs
  mm: Convert ptlock_ptr() to use ptdescs
  mm: Convert pmd_ptlock_init() to use ptdescs
  mm: Convert ptlock_init() to use ptdescs
  mm: Convert pmd_ptlock_free() to use ptdescs
  mm: Convert ptlock_free() to use ptdescs
  mm: Create ptdesc equivalents for pgtable_{pte,pmd}_page_{ctor,dtor}
  powerpc: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  x86: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  s390: Convert various pgalloc functions to use ptdescs
  mm: remove page table members from struct page
  pgalloc: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  arm: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  arm64: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  csky: Convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  hexagon: Convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  loongarch: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  m68k: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  mips: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  nios2: Convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  openrisc: Convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  riscv: Convert alloc_{pmd, pte}_late() to use ptdescs
  sh: Convert pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  sparc64: Convert various functions to use ptdescs
  sparc: Convert pgtable_pte_page_{ctor, dtor}() to ptdesc equivalents
  um: Convert {pmd, pte}_free_tlb() to use ptdescs
  mm: Remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappers

 Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst    |  12 +-
 .../zh_CN/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst        |  14 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h                    |  12 +-
 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c                             |   7 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h                  |  14 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c                           |   7 +-
 arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h               |   4 +-
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/pgalloc.h            |   8 +-
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |  27 ++--
 arch/loongarch/mm/pgtable.c                   |   7 +-
 arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgalloc.h           |  47 +++---
 arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgalloc.h          |   8 +-
 arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c                       |   4 +-
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h               |  32 ++--
 arch/mips/mm/pgtable.c                        |   8 +-
 arch/nios2/include/asm/pgalloc.h              |   8 +-
 arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h           |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c        |  10 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c            |  32 ++--
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c                |  58 +++----
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h              |   8 +-
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c                          |  16 +-
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h               |   4 +-
 arch/s390/include/asm/tlb.h                   |   4 +-
 arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c                        | 128 +++++++--------
 arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h                 |   9 +-
 arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c                       |  17 +-
 arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c                         |   5 +-
 arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h                 |  18 +--
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                         |  47 +++---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c                         |   2 +-
 include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h                 |  88 +++++-----
 include/asm-generic/tlb.h                     |  11 ++
 include/linux/mm.h                            | 151 +++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  97 ++++++++---
 include/linux/page-flags.h                    |  30 +++-
 mm/memory.c                                   |   8 +-
 37 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-)

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