Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE

[Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
>
> On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of
> empty PTE page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem,
> first enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE to prepare for enabling the
> PT_RECLAIM feature, which resolves this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/Kconfig           | 1 +
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> index 80367f2cf821c..6c7dbf0adad62 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ config ALPHA
>         select OLD_SIGSUSPEND
>         select CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS if !ALPHA_EV67
>         select MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
> +       select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
>         select SPARSEMEM_EXTREME if SPARSEMEM
>         select ZONE_DMA
>         help
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h
> index 4f79e331af5ea..ad586b898fd6b 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h
> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>
>  #include <asm-generic/tlb.h>
>
> -#define __pte_free_tlb(tlb, pte, address)              pte_free((tlb)->mm, pte)
> -#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmd, address)              pmd_free((tlb)->mm, pmd)
> -
> +#define __pte_free_tlb(tlb, pte, address)      tlb_remove_ptdesc((tlb), page_ptdesc(pte))
> +#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmd, address)      tlb_remove_ptdesc((tlb), virt_to_ptdesc(pmd))
> +
>  #endif
> --
> 2.20.1
>

Looks good from an Alpha perspective.

Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>