+ mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order.patch added to mm-new branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_reporting: allow zero page_reporting_order
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yuvraj Sakshith <yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com>
Subject: mm/page_reporting: allow zero page_reporting_order
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:01:23 -0800

Patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting".

Today, page reporting sets page_reporting_order in two ways:

(1) page_reporting.page_reporting_order cmdline parameter
(2) Driver can pass order while registering itself.

In both cases, order zero is ignored by free page reporting because it is
used to set page_reporting_order to a default value, like MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

In some cases we might want page_reporting_order to be zero.

For instance, when virtio-balloon runs inside a guest with tiny memory
(say, 16MB), it might not be able to find a order 1 page (or in the worst
case order MAX_PAGE_ORDER page) after some uptime.  Page reporting should
be able to return order zero pages back for optimal memory relinquishment.

This patchset changes the default fallback value from '0' to '-1' in all
possible clients of free page reporting (hv_balloon and virtio-balloon)
together with allowing '0' as a valid order in page_reporting_register().


This patch (of 3):

Some drivers might require page sized chunks to be reported.  This patch
allows registering a driver with order as zero.

Example use case: virtio-balloon driver running on a guest with very small
memory.  After some time has passed, the guest might not be able to find a
chunk of 8KB.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260226070125.3732265-1-yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260226070125.3732265-2-yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Yuvraj Sakshith <yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_reporting.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_reporting.c~mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order
+++ a/mm/page_reporting.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int page_reporting_register(struct page_
 	 */
 
 	if (page_reporting_order == -1) {
-		if (prdev->order > 0 && prdev->order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+		if (prdev->order >= 0 && prdev->order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
 			page_reporting_order = prdev->order;
 		else
 			page_reporting_order = pageblock_order;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com are

mm-page_reporting-allow-zero-page_reporting_order.patch
hv_balloon-change-default-page-reporting-order.patch
virtio_balloon-set-pr_devorder-to-new-default.patch