From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
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Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, security@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:04:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251014130437.1090448-4-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251014130437.1090448-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
There are a billion ways to refer to a physical memory address.
One of the x86 PMD freeing code location chooses to use a 'pte_t *' to
point to a PMD page and then call a PTE-specific freeing function for
it. That's a bit wonky.
Just use a 'struct ptdesc *' instead. Its entire purpose is to refer
to page table pages. It also means being able to remove an explicit
cast.
Right now, pte_free_kernel() is a one-liner that calls
pagetable_dtor_free(). Effectively, all this patch does is
remove one superfluous __pa(__va(paddr)) conversion and then
call pagetable_dtor_free() directly instead of through a helper.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++--
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 15ce0c415d36..94e2ec6c5685 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3203,8 +3203,7 @@ pte_t *pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
((unlikely(pmd_none(*(pmd))) && __pte_alloc_kernel(pmd))? \
NULL: pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address))
-#if defined(CONFIG_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS)
-
+#if defined(CONFIG_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
static inline struct page *pmd_pgtable_page(pmd_t *pmd)
{
unsigned long mask = ~(PTRS_PER_PMD * sizeof(pmd_t) - 1);
@@ -3215,6 +3214,9 @@ static inline struct ptdesc *pmd_ptdesc(pmd_t *pmd)
{
return page_ptdesc(pmd_pgtable_page(pmd));
}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS)
static inline spinlock_t *pmd_lockptr(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
{
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index ddf248c3ee7d..c830ccbc2fd8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
{
pmd_t *pmd, *pmd_sv;
- pte_t *pte;
+ struct ptdesc *pt;
int i;
pmd = pud_pgtable(*pud);
@@ -750,8 +750,8 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
if (!pmd_none(pmd_sv[i])) {
- pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_sv[i]);
- pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+ pt = pmd_ptdesc(&pmd_sv[i]);
+ pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
}
}
@@ -772,15 +772,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
*/
int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
{
- pte_t *pte;
+ struct ptdesc *pt;
- pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+ pt = pmd_ptdesc(pmd);
pmd_clear(pmd);
/* INVLPG to clear all paging-structure caches */
flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE-1);
- pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+ pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
return 1;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-14 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-14 13:04 [PATCH v6 0/7] Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] mm: Add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-16 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] mm: Actually mark kernel page table pages Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` Lu Baolu [this message]
2025-10-14 23:19 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages Dave Hansen
2025-10-15 5:19 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-16 19:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: Introduce pure page table freeing function Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] x86/mm: Use pagetable_free() Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] mm: Introduce deferred freeing for kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-16 19:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-17 1:29 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] iommu/sva: Invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 20:59 ` [syzbot ci] Re: Fix " syzbot ci
2025-10-15 16:25 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-16 8:00 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-17 17:05 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-20 5:34 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-20 14:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-15 0:43 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] " Andrew Morton
2025-10-15 5:38 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-15 15:55 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 1:42 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-17 14:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:31 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 18:26 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2025-10-22 5:06 ` Baolu Lu
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