From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/17] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:00:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01cfa2f8-753b-428b-932f-470a46221b4d@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260920-remove-pg_private-v5-3-bb68b6a21869@nvidia.com>
On 2026/9/21 10:27, Zi Yan wrote:
> gnttab_alloc_pages() stores xen_page_foreign in page->private. On 32-bit, a
> pointer to an allocated xen_page_foreign is stored; on 64-bit,
> xen_page_foreign is stored inline. Checking page->private != NULL is enough
> to tell whether a xen_page_foreign needs to be freed on 32-bit and
> page->private is zeroed unconditionally on 64-bit.
>
> It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> ---
Nothing jumped out at me, feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 2:27 [PATCH v5 00/17] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:27 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [f2fs-dev] " Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/17] mm/zsmalloc: replace PG_private with pointer comparison Zi Yan
2026-09-21 6:02 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 02/17] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:38 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 6:19 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 03/17] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:00 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 04/17] fscrypt: stop setting PG_private on bounce page Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:03 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 05/17] mm/hugetlb: use direct assignment instead of folio_change_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:11 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5 06/17] f2fs: stop using PG_private Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-21 2:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:24 ` [f2fs-dev] " Lance Yang
2026-09-21 7:24 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5 07/17] f2fs: convert the ->private flag helpers to folio-only Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-21 2:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:39 ` [f2fs-dev] " Lance Yang
2026-09-21 7:39 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-30 8:19 ` [f2fs-dev] " Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-30 8:19 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 08/17] erofs: mm/pagemap: add readahead_folio_last() to avoid folio->private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 8:20 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 09/17] erofs: use folio_attach/detach_private() instead of direct assignment Zi Yan
2026-09-21 8:45 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 10/17] mm/page-flags: check page/folio->private instead of PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 15:38 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-22 1:23 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 9:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 11/17] treewide: remove folio_set/clear_private() usage Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 12/17] ceph: replace PagePrivate() with page_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 13/17] md: Use folio_alloc_buffers() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 9:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 14/17] md: Use folio APIs in free_page() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 15/17] md: Remove the last use of page_buffers() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 16/17] treewide: remove PagePrivate() and PG_private from comments and docs Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 17/17] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 15:36 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 4:08 ` [PATCH v5 00/17] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Andrew Morton
2026-09-21 4:08 ` Andrew Morton
2026-09-21 4:08 ` [f2fs-dev] " Andrew Morton
2026-09-22 4:16 ` Nanzhe Zhao
2026-09-22 4:16 ` Nanzhe Zhao
2026-09-22 4:16 ` [f2fs-dev] " Nanzhe Zhao
2026-09-22 15:31 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2026-09-22 15:31 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2026-09-22 15:31 ` Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel
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