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From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use ptdescs
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2026 09:20:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202172005.683870-2-vishal.moola@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260202172005.683870-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com>

In order to separately allocate ptdescs from pages, we need all allocation
and free sites to use the appropriate functions. Convert these pte
allocation/free sites to use ptdescs.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 6c6eb486f7a6..f9f9d4ca8e71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ static bool try_to_free_pte_page(pte_t *pte)
 		if (!pte_none(pte[i]))
 			return false;
 
-	free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+	pagetable_free(virt_to_ptdesc((void *)pte));
 	return true;
 }
 
@@ -1537,12 +1537,15 @@ static void unmap_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 	 */
 }
 
-static int alloc_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
+static int alloc_pte_ptdesc(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
-	pte_t *pte = (pte_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pte)
+	pte_t *pte;
+	struct ptdesc *ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
+
+	if (!ptdesc)
 		return -1;
 
+	pte = (pte_t *) ptdesc_address(ptdesc);
 	set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(__pa(pte) | _KERNPG_TABLE));
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1600,7 +1603,7 @@ static long populate_pmd(struct cpa_data *cpa,
 		 */
 		pmd = pmd_offset(pud, start);
 		if (pmd_none(*pmd))
-			if (alloc_pte_page(pmd))
+			if (alloc_pte_ptdesc(pmd))
 				return -1;
 
 		populate_pte(cpa, start, pre_end, cur_pages, pmd, pgprot);
@@ -1641,7 +1644,7 @@ static long populate_pmd(struct cpa_data *cpa,
 	if (start < end) {
 		pmd = pmd_offset(pud, start);
 		if (pmd_none(*pmd))
-			if (alloc_pte_page(pmd))
+			if (alloc_pte_ptdesc(pmd))
 				return -1;
 
 		populate_pte(cpa, start, end, num_pages - cur_pages,
-- 
2.52.0



  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-02 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-02 17:20 [PATCH v3 0/3] Convert 64-bit x86/mm/pat to ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-02 17:20 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
2026-02-03 17:03   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use ptdescs Mike Rapoport
2026-02-03 17:23   ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-03 21:07     ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-03 21:15       ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-02 17:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-02 17:20 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-03 17:03 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Convert 64-bit x86/mm/pat to ptdescs Mike Rapoport

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