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From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>,
	Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	kernel-team@meta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 10/14] mm: Drop fake head checks
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:09:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251218150949.721480-11-kas@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251218150949.721480-1-kas@kernel.org>

With fake head pages eliminated in the previous commit, remove the
supporting infrastructure:

  - page_fixed_fake_head(): no longer needed to detect fake heads;
  - page_is_fake_head(): no longer needed;
  - page_count_writable(): no longer needed for RCU protection;
  - RCU read_lock in page_ref_add_unless(): no longer needed;

This substantially simplifies compound_head() and page_ref_add_unless(),
removing both branches and RCU overhead from these hot paths.

Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/page-flags.h | 96 ++------------------------------------
 include/linux/page_ref.h   |  8 +---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index fac5f41b3b27..9d89beed9df6 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -198,105 +198,15 @@ enum pageflags {
 
 #ifndef __GENERATING_BOUNDS_H
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
 DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
 
-/*
- * Return the real head page struct iff the @page is a fake head page, otherwise
- * return the @page itself. See Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst.
- */
-static __always_inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page *page)
-{
-	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key))
-		return page;
-
-	/*
-	 * Fake heads only exists if size of struct page is power-of-2.
-	 * See hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable_size().
-	 */
-	if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)))
-		return page;
-
-	/*
-	 * Only addresses aligned with PAGE_SIZE of struct page may be fake head
-	 * struct page. The alignment check aims to avoid access the fields (
-	 * e.g. compound_info) of the @page[1]. It can avoid touch a (possibly)
-	 * cold cacheline in some cases.
-	 */
-	if (IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)page, PAGE_SIZE) &&
-	    test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags.f)) {
-		/*
-		 * We can safely access the field of the @page[1] with PG_head
-		 * because the @page is a compound page composed with at least
-		 * two contiguous pages.
-		 */
-		unsigned long info = READ_ONCE(page[1].compound_info);
-
-		/* See set_compound_head() */
-		if (likely(info & 1)) {
-			unsigned long p = (unsigned long)page;
-
-			return (const struct page *)(p & info);
-		}
-	}
-	return page;
-}
-
-static __always_inline bool page_count_writable(const struct page *page, int u)
-{
-	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key))
-		return true;
-
-	/*
-	 * The refcount check is ordered before the fake-head check to prevent
-	 * the following race:
-	 *   CPU 1 (HVO)                     CPU 2 (speculative PFN walker)
-	 *
-	 *   page_ref_freeze()
-	 *   synchronize_rcu()
-	 *                                   rcu_read_lock()
-	 *                                   page_is_fake_head() is false
-	 *   vmemmap_remap_pte()
-	 *   XXX: struct page[] becomes r/o
-	 *
-	 *   page_ref_unfreeze()
-	 *                                   page_ref_count() is not zero
-	 *
-	 *                                   atomic_add_unless(&page->_refcount)
-	 *                                   XXX: try to modify r/o struct page[]
-	 *
-	 * The refcount check also prevents modification attempts to other (r/o)
-	 * tail pages that are not fake heads.
-	 */
-	if (atomic_read_acquire(&page->_refcount) == u)
-		return false;
-
-	return page_fixed_fake_head(page) == page;
-}
-#else
-static inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page *page)
-{
-	return page;
-}
-
-static inline bool page_count_writable(const struct page *page, int u)
-{
-	return true;
-}
-#endif
-
-static __always_inline int page_is_fake_head(const struct page *page)
-{
-	return page_fixed_fake_head(page) != page;
-}
-
 static __always_inline unsigned long _compound_head(const struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long info = READ_ONCE(page->compound_info);
 
 	/* Bit 0 encodes PageTail() */
 	if (!(info & 1))
-		return (unsigned long)page_fixed_fake_head(page);
+		return (unsigned long)page;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the size of struct page is not power-of-2, the rest of
@@ -378,7 +288,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_compound_head(struct page *page)
 
 static __always_inline int PageTail(const struct page *page)
 {
-	return READ_ONCE(page->compound_info) & 1 || page_is_fake_head(page);
+	return READ_ONCE(page->compound_info) & 1;
 }
 
 static __always_inline int PageCompound(const struct page *page)
@@ -905,7 +815,7 @@ static __always_inline bool folio_test_head(const struct folio *folio)
 static __always_inline int PageHead(const struct page *page)
 {
 	PF_POISONED_CHECK(page);
-	return test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags.f) && !page_is_fake_head(page);
+	return test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags.f);
 }
 
 __SETPAGEFLAG(Head, head, PF_ANY)
diff --git a/include/linux/page_ref.h b/include/linux/page_ref.h
index 544150d1d5fd..490d0ad6e56d 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_ref.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_ref.h
@@ -230,13 +230,7 @@ static inline int folio_ref_dec_return(struct folio *folio)
 
 static inline bool page_ref_add_unless(struct page *page, int nr, int u)
 {
-	bool ret = false;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	/* avoid writing to the vmemmap area being remapped */
-	if (page_count_writable(page, u))
-		ret = atomic_add_unless(&page->_refcount, nr, u);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	bool ret = atomic_add_unless(&page->_refcount, nr, u);
 
 	if (page_ref_tracepoint_active(page_ref_mod_unless))
 		__page_ref_mod_unless(page, nr, ret);
-- 
2.51.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-18 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-18 15:09 [PATCHv2 00/14] Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 01/14] mm: Move MAX_FOLIO_ORDER definition to mmzone.h Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 02/14] mm/sparse: Check memmap alignment Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  8:34   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22 14:02     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22 14:18       ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-22 14:52         ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22 14:59           ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22 14:55         ` Muchun Song
2025-12-23  9:38           ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-23 11:26             ` Muchun Song
2025-12-24 14:13             ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22 14:49       ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 03/14] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail() Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  2:55   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 04/14] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info' Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  3:00   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 05/14] mm: Move set/clear_compound_head() next to compound_head() Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  3:06   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 06/14] mm: Rework compound_head() for power-of-2 sizeof(struct page) Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  3:20   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22 14:03     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-23  8:37       ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22  7:57   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22  9:45     ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22 14:49       ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 07/14] mm: Make page_zonenum() use head page Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 08/14] mm/hugetlb: Refactor code around vmemmap_walk Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  5:54   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-22 15:00     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22 15:11       ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 09/14] mm/hugetlb: Remove fake head pages Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-18 15:09 ` Kiryl Shutsemau [this message]
2025-12-22  5:56   ` [PATCHv2 10/14] mm: Drop fake head checks Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 11/14] hugetlb: Remove VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  6:00   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 12/14] mm/hugetlb: Remove hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key static key Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  6:03   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 13/14] mm: Remove the branch from compound_head() Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  6:30   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv2 14/14] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-12-22  6:20   ` Muchun Song
2025-12-18 22:18 ` [PATCHv2 00/14] Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization Kiryl Shutsemau

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