From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20B79C79F9E for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.1412190.1642704 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x3xYr-0007tb-Q7; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:16:37 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 1412190.1642704; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:16:37 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x3xYr-0007tU-NR; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:16:37 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 1412190; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:16:36 +0000 Received: from mx.expurgate.net ([195.190.135.10]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x3xYq-0007tO-EM for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:16:36 +0000 Received: from mx.expurgate.net (helo=localhost) by mx.expurgate.net with esmtp id 1x3xYp-009IxJ-RI for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:16:35 +0200 Received: from [10.42.69.3] (helo=localhost) by localhost with ESMTP (eXpurgate MTA 0.9.1) (envelope-from ) id 6aa026c4-2eae-0a2a0a5409dd-0a2a4503bac8-30 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:16:35 +0200 Received: from [172.234.252.31] (helo=sea.source.kernel.org) by tlsNG-33051d.mxtls.expurgate.net with ESMTPS (eXpurgate 4.57.1) (envelope-from ) id 6aa026d2-fae8-0a2a45030019-aceafc1fab4c-3 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:16:35 +0200 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) by sea.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B3542E3B; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2F2B1F00A3A; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:16:24 +0000 (UTC) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" Authentication-Results: eu.smtp.expurgate.cloud; none Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 17:16:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/14] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping To: Zi Yan , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Andrew Morton , Muchun Song , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Baolin Wang , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Usama Arif , Gregory Price , Ying Huang , Alistair Popple , Johannes Weiner , Qi Zheng , Shakeel Butt , Kairui Song Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Juergen Gross , Stefano Stabellini , Oleksandr Tyshchenko , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org References: <20260907-remove-pg_private-v3-0-6ae22f9d9272@nvidia.com> <20260907-remove-pg_private-v3-3-6ae22f9d9272@nvidia.com> From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=david@kernel.org; keydata= xsFNBFXLn5EBEAC+zYvAFJxCBY9Tr1xZgcESmxVNI/0ffzE/ZQOiHJl6mGkmA1R7/uUpiCjJ dBrn+lhhOYjjNefFQou6478faXE6o2AhmebqT4KiQoUQFV4R7y1KMEKoSyy8hQaK1umALTdL QZLQMzNE74ap+GDK0wnacPQFpcG1AE9RMq3aeErY5tujekBS32jfC/7AnH7I0v1v1TbbK3Gp XNeiN4QroO+5qaSr0ID2sz5jtBLRb15RMre27E1ImpaIv2Jw8NJgW0k/D1RyKCwaTsgRdwuK Kx/Y91XuSBdz0uOyU/S8kM1+ag0wvsGlpBVxRR/xw/E8M7TEwuCZQArqqTCmkG6HGcXFT0V9 PXFNNgV5jXMQRwU0O/ztJIQqsE5LsUomE//bLwzj9IVsaQpKDqW6TAPjcdBDPLHvriq7kGjt WhVhdl0qEYB8lkBEU7V2Yb+SYhmhpDrti9Fq1EsmhiHSkxJcGREoMK/63r9WLZYI3+4W2rAc UucZa4OT27U5ZISjNg3Ev0rxU5UH2/pT4wJCfxwocmqaRr6UYmrtZmND89X0KigoFD/XSeVv jwBRNjPAubK9/k5NoRrYqztM9W6sJqrH8+UWZ1Idd/DdmogJh0gNC0+N42Za9yBRURfIdKSb B3JfpUqcWwE7vUaYrHG1nw54pLUoPG6sAA7Mehl3nd4pZUALHwARAQABzS5EYXZpZCBIaWxk ZW5icmFuZCAoQ3VycmVudCkgPGRhdmlkQGtlcm5lbC5vcmc+wsGQBBMBCAA6AhsDBQkmWAik AgsJBBUKCQgCFgICHgUCF4AWIQQb2cqtc1xMOkYN/MpN3hD3AP+DWgUCaYJt/AIZAQAKCRBN 3hD3AP+DWriiD/9BLGEKG+N8L2AXhikJg6YmXom9ytRwPqDgpHpVg2xdhopoWdMRXjzOrIKD g4LSnFaKneQD0hZhoArEeamG5tyo32xoRsPwkbpIzL0OKSZ8G6mVbFGpjmyDLQCAxteXCLXz ZI0VbsuJKelYnKcXWOIndOrNRvE5eoOfTt2XfBnAapxMYY2IsV+qaUXlO63GgfIOg8RBaj7x 3NxkI3rV0SHhI4GU9K6jCvGghxeS1QX6L/XI9mfAYaIwGy5B68kF26piAVYv/QZDEVIpo3t7 /fjSpxKT8plJH6rhhR0epy8dWRHk3qT5tk2P85twasdloWtkMZ7FsCJRKWscm1BLpsDn6EQ4 jeMHECiY9kGKKi8dQpv3FRyo2QApZ49NNDbwcR0ZndK0XFo15iH708H5Qja/8TuXCwnPWAcJ DQoNIDFyaxe26Rx3ZwUkRALa3iPcVjE0//TrQ4KnFf+lMBSrS33xDDBfevW9+Dk6IISmDH1R HFq2jpkN+FX/PE8eVhV68B2DsAPZ5rUwyCKUXPTJ/irrCCmAAb5Jpv11S7hUSpqtM/6oVESC 3z/7CzrVtRODzLtNgV4r5EI+wAv/3PgJLlMwgJM90Fb3CB2IgbxhjvmB1WNdvXACVydx55V7 LPPKodSTF29rlnQAf9HLgCphuuSrrPn5VQDaYZl4N/7zc2wcWM7BTQRVy5+RARAA59fefSDR 9nMGCb9LbMX+TFAoIQo/wgP5XPyzLYakO+94GrgfZjfhdaxPXMsl2+o8jhp/hlIzG56taNdt VZtPp3ih1AgbR8rHgXw1xwOpuAd5lE1qNd54ndHuADO9a9A0vPimIes78Hi1/yy+ZEEvRkHk /kDa6F3AtTc1m4rbbOk2fiKzzsE9YXweFjQvl9p+AMw6qd/iC4lUk9g0+FQXNdRs+o4o6Qvy iOQJfGQ4UcBuOy1IrkJrd8qq5jet1fcM2j4QvsW8CLDWZS1L7kZ5gT5EycMKxUWb8LuRjxzZ 3QY1aQH2kkzn6acigU3HLtgFyV1gBNV44ehjgvJpRY2cC8VhanTx0dZ9mj1YKIky5N+C0f21 zvntBqcxV0+3p8MrxRRcgEtDZNav+xAoT3G0W4SahAaUTWXpsZoOecwtxi74CyneQNPTDjNg azHmvpdBVEfj7k3p4dmJp5i0U66Onmf6mMFpArvBRSMOKU9DlAzMi4IvhiNWjKVaIE2Se9BY FdKVAJaZq85P2y20ZBd08ILnKcj7XKZkLU5FkoA0udEBvQ0f9QLNyyy3DZMCQWcwRuj1m73D sq8DEFBdZ5eEkj1dCyx+t/ga6x2rHyc8Sl86oK1tvAkwBNsfKou3v+jP/l14a7DGBvrmlYjO 59o3t6inu6H7pt7OL6u6BQj7DoMAEQEAAcLBfAQYAQgAJgIbDBYhBBvZyq1zXEw6Rg38yk3e EPcA/4NaBQJonNqrBQkmWAihAAoJEE3eEPcA/4NaKtMQALAJ8PzprBEXbXcEXwDKQu+P/vts IfUb1UNMfMV76BicGa5NCZnJNQASDP/+bFg6O3gx5NbhHHPeaWz/VxlOmYHokHodOvtL0WCC 8A5PEP8tOk6029Z+J+xUcMrJClNVFpzVvOpb1lCbhjwAV465Hy+NUSbbUiRxdzNQtLtgZzOV Zw7jxUCs4UUZLQTCuBpFgb15bBxYZ/BL9MbzxPxvfUQIPbnzQMcqtpUs21CMK2PdfCh5c4gS sDci6D5/ZIBw94UQWmGpM/O1ilGXde2ZzzGYl64glmccD8e87OnEgKnH3FbnJnT4iJchtSvx yJNi1+t0+qDti4m88+/9IuPqCKb6Stl+s2dnLtJNrjXBGJtsQG/sRpqsJz5x1/2nPJSRMsx9 5YfqbdrJSOFXDzZ8/r82HgQEtUvlSXNaXCa95ez0UkOG7+bDm2b3s0XahBQeLVCH0mw3RAQg r7xDAYKIrAwfHHmMTnBQDPJwVqxJjVNr7yBic4yfzVWGCGNE4DnOW0vcIeoyhy9vnIa3w1uZ 3iyY2Nsd7JxfKu1PRhCGwXzRw5TlfEsoRI7V9A8isUCoqE2Dzh3FvYHVeX4Us+bRL/oqareJ CIFqgYMyvHj7Q06kTKmauOe4Nf0l0qEkIuIzfoLJ3qr5UyXc2hLtWyT9Ir+lYlX9efqh7mOY qIws/H2t In-Reply-To: <20260907-remove-pg_private-v3-3-6ae22f9d9272@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-33051d/1788880595-764FC4E9-E82700AA/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1642 On 9/8/26 04:56, 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: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 > Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 > Signed-off-by: Zi Yan > To: Juergen Gross > To: Stefano Stabellini > Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > --- > drivers/xen/balloon.c | 5 +++++ > drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 11 +++++------ > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c > index e7f74ea7cd5eb..fdb18348cfdfe 100644 > --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c > +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c > @@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ static struct page *balloon_retrieve(bool require_lowmem) > > __ClearPageOffline(page); > dec_node_page_state(page, NR_BALLOON_PAGES); > + /* > + * clear page->private before giving it out, since it might be used to > + * store xen_page_foreign info. > + */ > + set_page_private(page, 0); Who would have set it to != 0 in the first place? e.g., gnttab_free_pages() resets it to 0 now before calling xen_free_unpopulated_pages(). -- Cheers, David