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>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:03:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219020354.321088-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com> (raw)
set_memory.c has a call to pagetable_free(), while the allocation sites
use get_free_pages(). This causes issues separately allocating ptdescs
from struct page.
It turns out that we can just use the appropriate generic pagetable
apis for allocation/freeing. This helps simplify and standardize the
code.
In the short term, this helps enable Matthew's work to allocate frozen
pagetables[1]. And in the long term, this will help us cleanly split
ptdesc allocations from struct page[2].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20251113140448.1814860-1-willy@infradead.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20251020001652.2116669-1-willy@infradead.org/
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Based on current mm-new.
v6:
- Drop the renaming of *page* functions
- Use existing page table api instead of creating new apis
- Split the pmd and populate_pgd() changes into separate patches
- Reword the cover letter to describe the new approach
v5 link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260211195233.368497-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com/
Vishal Moola (Oracle) (4):
x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use page table apis
x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd code to use page table apis
x86/mm/pat: Convert populate_pgd() to use page table apis
x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() to use ptdescs
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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2.53.0
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 2:03 Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert populate_pgd() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-19 2:03 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-20 10:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic page table apis Mike Rapoport
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