From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: A plan for supporting PageMovable in 2025
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:00:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z9hVE-SzM-IuS-6B@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
With the upcoming shrink of struct page to 4 words, we need a plan for
handling PageMovable. Ideally this does not involve memory allocation,
and is a relatively simple change from what we have now. To shrink
struct page beyond 4 words, we'll need a better plan, but I think this
will do for the next few months.
The current proposed layout for struct page is:
struct page {
unsigned long flags;
union {
struct list_head buddy_list;
struct list_head pcp_list;
struct {
unsigned long memdesc;
union {
unsigned long private;
atomic_t _mapcount;
};
};
};
int _refcount;
};
My proposal for movable non-folio pages is:
* memdesc is used to point to struct movable_operations (these will
need to be aligned to 16 bytes, but I think that's fine)
* private is used to point to the next page in the list
* These pages are refcounted
* We retain a "lock" bit in page->flags
The most disruptive part of this is that we can't use a list_head any
more. I don't think a singly-linked list is prohibitive, but either
we need to switch folios to also use a singly-linked list, or we need
to handle folios & movable pages separately. I think the former is
probably best.
next reply other threads:[~2025-03-17 17:00 UTC|newest]
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2025-03-17 17:00 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-03-17 17:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-03-18 10:12 ` David Hildenbrand
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