From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, security@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/8] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:40:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250919054007.472493-4-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250919054007.472493-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
There are a billion ways to refer to a physical memory address.
One of the x86 PMD freeing code location chooses to use a 'pte_t *' to
point to a PMD page and then call a PTE-specific freeing function for
it. That's a bit wonky.
Just use a 'struct ptdesc *' instead. Its entire purpose is to refer
to page table pages. It also means being able to remove an explicit
cast.
Right now, pte_free_kernel() is a one-liner that calls
pagetable_dtor_free(). Effectively, all this patch does is
remove one superfluous __pa(__va(paddr)) conversion and then
call pagetable_dtor_free() directly instead of through a helper.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index ddf248c3ee7d..2e5ecfdce73c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
{
pmd_t *pmd, *pmd_sv;
- pte_t *pte;
+ struct ptdesc *pt;
int i;
pmd = pud_pgtable(*pud);
@@ -750,8 +750,8 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
if (!pmd_none(pmd_sv[i])) {
- pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_sv[i]);
- pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+ pt = page_ptdesc(pmd_page(pmd_sv[i]));
+ pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
}
}
@@ -772,15 +772,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
*/
int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
{
- pte_t *pte;
+ struct ptdesc *pt;
- pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+ pt = page_ptdesc(pmd_page(*pmd));
pmd_clear(pmd);
/* INVLPG to clear all paging-structure caches */
flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE-1);
- pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+ pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
return 1;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-19 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 5:39 [PATCH v5 0/8] Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-09-19 5:39 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] mm: Add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-08 19:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-10-11 6:24 ` Baolu Lu
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] mm: Actually mark kernel page table pages Lu Baolu
2025-10-09 19:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-13 7:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-19 5:40 ` Lu Baolu [this message]
2025-10-09 19:25 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages David Hildenbrand
2025-10-09 19:31 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-11 6:26 ` Baolu Lu
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] mm: Introduce pure page table freeing function Lu Baolu
2025-10-09 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-13 7:24 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] x86/mm: Use pagetable_free() Lu Baolu
2025-09-24 12:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-09 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-13 7:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] mm: Introduce deferred freeing for kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-09 19:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-09 19:32 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-10 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-11 6:30 ` Baolu Lu
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] mm: Hook up Kconfig options for async page table freeing Lu Baolu
2025-09-19 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] iommu/sva: Invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-09-25 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] Fix " Dave Hansen
2025-10-08 19:42 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-09 19:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-14 13:21 ` Baolu Lu
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