From: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
To: david@kernel.org, andreas@gaisler.com, richard.weiyang@gmail.com,
will@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org,
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Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/8] enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:12:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1769515122.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> (raw)
From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Changes in v4:
- convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
- fix a WARN_ON_ONCE() on sparc64 (and on ppc)
(reported by Andreas Larsson)
- collect Acked-by (Hi David, I've kept your Acked-by, feel free to drop it)
- rebase onto the v6.19-rc7
Changes in v3:
- modify the commit message in [PATCH v3 1/7] (suggested by David Hildenbrand)
- make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE instead of 64BIT
- collect Acked-by
- rebase onto the next-20251217
Changelog in v2:
- fix compilation errors (reported by Magnus Lindholm and kernel test robot)
- adjust some code style (suggested by Huacai Chen)
- make PT_RECLAIM user-unselectable (suggested by David Hildenbrand)
- rebase onto the next-20251119
Hi all,
This series aims to enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures.
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, we need to enable
PT_RECLAIM, which depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE.
For these architectures that define its own __tlb_remove_table(), since
their page tables are not of type struct ptdesc, they cannot be supported
PT_RECLAIM.
Therefore, this series first enables MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE on all 64-bit
architectures, then converts __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config, and finally makes PT_RECLAIM depend on
MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE && !HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE. This way, PT_RECLAIM
can be enabled by default on most 64-bit architectures.
Of course, this will also be enabled on some 32-bit architectures that already
support MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE. That's fine, PT_RECLAIM works well on all
32-bit architectures as well. Although the benefit isn't significant, there's
still memory that can be reclaimed. Perhaps PT_RECLAIM can be enabled on all
32-bit architectures in the future.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Qi
Qi Zheng (8):
mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of
asm-generic/tlb.h
alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h | 6 +++---
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 7 +++----
arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 7 +++----
arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/parisc/include/asm/tlb.h | 4 ++--
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h | 1 -
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h | 1 -
arch/um/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 2 +-
mm/Kconfig | 8 +++-----
mm/pt_reclaim.c | 2 +-
17 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-27 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-27 12:12 Qi Zheng [this message]
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h Qi Zheng
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE Qi Zheng
2026-02-01 22:01 ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] LoongArch: " Qi Zheng
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] mips: " Qi Zheng
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] parisc: " Qi Zheng
2026-02-07 2:34 ` Helge Deller
2026-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] um: " Qi Zheng
2026-01-27 12:13 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config Qi Zheng
2026-02-06 11:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-06 11:13 ` Qi Zheng
2026-02-06 11:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-06 11:58 ` Qi Zheng
2026-02-06 12:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-06 13:33 ` Andreas Larsson
2026-01-27 12:13 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE Qi Zheng
2026-01-27 20:46 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures Andrew Morton
2026-01-28 2:07 ` Qi Zheng
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