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 2/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd code to use page table apis
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:03:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219020354.321088-3-vishal.moola@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260219020354.321088-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
We need all allocation and free sites to use the ptdesc APIs in order to
allocate them separately from regular pages. Convert the pmd
allocation/free sites to use the generic page table apis, since those
use ptdescs already.
Pass through init_mm since these are kernel page tables, pmd_alloc_one()
needs it to identify kernel page tables. Also, the generic implementation
doesn't use the second argument. Pass it a placeholder so we don't have
to reimplement it or risk breaking other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index d52010fd3023..655bef618ea0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ static bool try_to_free_pmd_page(pmd_t *pmd)
if (!pmd_none(pmd[i]))
return false;
- free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
+ pmd_free(&init_mm, pmd);
return true;
}
@@ -1549,7 +1549,10 @@ static int alloc_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
static int alloc_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
{
- pmd_t *pmd = (pmd_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ /* The generic implementation of pmd_alloc_one() doesn't use
+ * the second argument. Pass it 0 as a placeholder.
+ */
+ pmd_t *pmd = pmd_alloc_one(&init_mm, 0);
if (!pmd)
return -1;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-19 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 2:03 [PATCH v6 0/4] Convert x86/mm/pat to generic " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
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 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
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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