[PATCH v2 0/7] enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures
Qi Zheng
qi.zheng at linux.dev
Tue Nov 18 23:31:17 PST 2025
From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch at bytedance.com>
Changelog in v2:
- fix compilation errors (reported by Magnus Lindholm and kernel test robot)
- adjust some code style (suggested by Huacai Chen)
- make PT_RECLAIM user-unselectable (suggested by David Hildenbrand)
- rebase onto the next-20251119
Hi all,
This series aims to enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures.
On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of empty PTE
page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem, we need to enable
PT_RECLAIM, which depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE.
Therefore, this series first enables MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE on all 64-bit
architectures, and finally makes PT_RECLAIM depend on 64BIT. This way,
PT_RECLAIM can be enabled by default on all 64-bit architectures.
BTW, PT_RECLAIM works well on all 32-bit architectures as well. Although the
benefit isn't significant, there's still memory that can be reclaimed. Perhaps
PT_RECLAIM can be enabled on all 32-bit architectures in the future.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Qi
Qi Zheng (7):
mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of
asm-generic/tlb.h
alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mm: enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h | 6 +++---
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 7 +++----
arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 7 +++----
arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/parisc/include/asm/tlb.h | 4 ++--
arch/um/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
mm/Kconfig | 9 ++-------
mm/pt_reclaim.c | 2 +-
12 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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2.20.1
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