[PATCH v3 1/6] set_memory: add number of pages parameter to set_direct_map APIs

[Kevin Brodsky]

On 03/09/2026 11:28, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) wrote:
> When set_direct_map APIs were introduced by the commit d253ca0c3865
> ("x86/mm/cpa: Add set_direct_map_*() functions") the single page
> parameter made sense because the initial callers (vmalloc and
> hibernation) had sets of unsorted struct pages that required changes of
> their mappings in the direct map.
>
> Since there is an increasing demand for direct map manipulation and it
> is also desirable to be able to update larger physically contiguous
> mappings, for example an entire large folio, extend set_direct_map APIs
> to receive number of pages parameter.
>
> As there is still only a handful of callers, change the existing
> functions directly and update all the call sites rather than adding
> wrappers for single page case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h     | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c                | 8 ++++----
>  arch/loongarch/include/asm/set_memory.h | 4 ++--
>  arch/loongarch/mm/pageattr.c            | 8 ++++----
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h     | 4 ++--
>  arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c                | 8 ++++----
>  arch/s390/include/asm/set_memory.h      | 4 ++--
>  arch/s390/mm/pageattr.c                 | 8 ++++----
>  arch/x86/include/asm/set_memory.h       | 4 ++--
>  arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c            | 8 ++++----
>  include/linux/set_memory.h              | 6 ++++--
>  kernel/power/snapshot.c                 | 4 ++--
>  mm/secretmem.c                          | 6 +++---
>  mm/vmalloc.c                            | 5 +++--
>  14 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h
> index 90f61b17275e1..b07fd4e026eac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h
> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ bool can_set_direct_map(void);
>  
>  int set_memory_valid(unsigned long addr, int numpages, int enable);
>  
> -int set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(struct page *page);
> -int set_direct_map_default_noflush(struct page *page);
> +int set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(struct page *page, unsigned int numpages);
> +int set_direct_map_default_noflush(struct page *page, unsigned int numpages);

I don't have a strong opinion on whether to call the argument nr or
numpages, but we might as well be consistent across archs :)

Aside from that:

Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com>