Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/page_alloc: remove set_page_private() in prep_compound_tail()

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 6/29/26 04:56, Zi Yan wrote:
> With the subpage->private == 0 check added in a prior commit, any allocated
> compound page should not have nonzero subpage->private. Remove the

(not "subpage")

I think the sentence would be more precise if it said that we now expect
(and optionally check) tail pages to have zero ->private when they are
freed, so we can rely on that still being true during subsequent reallocation.

(and if the buddy allocator itself sets it to non-zero due to split/merge of
buddy pages, it will reset it to zero as well as appropriate, but maybe that
doesn't need spelling out)

> unnecessary subpage->private initialization code in compound page
> preparation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

> ---
>  mm/internal.h | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 181e79f1d6a2..c96421ce9350 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -895,7 +895,6 @@ static inline void prep_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
>  {
>  	tail->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING;
>  	set_compound_head(tail, head, order);
> -	set_page_private(tail, 0);
>  }
>  
>  static inline void init_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
>