[PATCH v5 00/33] Split ptdesc from struct page

Vishal Moola (Oracle) vishal.moola at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 06:57:12 AEST 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 is rebased on next-20230621.

There is a minor conflict with patch 24 and the mm-unstable tree in
arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c - The end result of applying the patch should
be the same.


v5:
  More Acked-bys :)
  Cleanup some documentation wording and formatting
  Add pt_rcu_head to ptdesc
  Add memcg to ptdesc (and align it with struct page)
  Ensure all get_free_page() callers prohibit HIGHMEM for 32 bit support.
  Renamed folio_{set, clear}_table() to folio_{set, clear}_pgtable()
  Removed pagetable_clear() as it is not necessary right now
  pagetable_free() now sets page->mapping = NULL
  Dropped s390 _refcount to _pt_frag_refcount conversion patch

Vishal Moola (Oracle) (33):
  mm: Add PAGE_TYPE_OP folio functions
  s390: Use _pt_s390_gaddr for gmap address tracking
  pgtable: Create struct ptdesc
  mm: add utility functions for ptdesc
  mm: Convert pmd_pgtable_page() to 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 gmap 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           |  43 ++--
 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                |  46 ++--
 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/gmap.c                           | 207 ++++++++++--------
 arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c                        | 108 ++++-----
 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                            | 153 +++++++++----
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |  14 --
 include/linux/page-flags.h                    |  30 ++-
 include/linux/pgtable.h                       |  77 +++++++
 mm/memory.c                                   |   8 +-
 39 files changed, 684 insertions(+), 453 deletions(-)

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