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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand" <david@kernel.org>,
	"Oscar Salvador" <osalvador@suse.de>,
	"Paul Walmsley" <pjw@kernel.org>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	"Alexandre Ghiti" <alex@ghiti.fr>,
	"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@rivosinc.com>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Kevin Brodsky" <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	"Alexander Gordeev" <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: fix missing page-table destructor in pagetable_free()
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:06:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6834c567-63ae-4795-aa27-25f478f0c0e2@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261010112457.49485-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On 10/10/26 04:24, Muchun Song wrote:
> +/**
> + * pagetable_free - Free pagetables
> + * @pt:	The page table descriptor
> + *
> + * pagetable_free frees the memory of all page tables described by a page
> + * table descriptor and the memory for the descriptor itself.
> + */
> +static inline void pagetable_free(struct ptdesc *pt)
> +{
> +	if (PageTable(ptdesc_page(pt)))
> +		pagetable_dtor(pt);
> +
> +	if (ptdesc_test_kernel(pt)) {
> +		ptdesc_clear_kernel(pt);
> +		pagetable_free_kernel(pt);
> +	} else {
> +		__pagetable_free(pt);
> +	}
> +}

This is an improvement on the last one, especially the changelog, thanks!

There's also some room here to comment why this needs separate user and
kernel page table handling and why some ptdesc have dtors and others
don't. But that's another patch.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-12 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-10 11:24 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: Fix page-table teardown during memory hot-remove Muchun Song
2026-10-10 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: fix missing page-table destructor in pagetable_free() Muchun Song
2026-10-12 11:15   ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-12 12:55     ` Muchun Song
2026-10-12 17:21       ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-12 13:27   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-12 13:29     ` Muchun Song
2026-10-12 14:06   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2026-10-10 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] riscv/mm: fix hotplug page-table destructor handling Muchun Song
2026-10-12 13:28   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-12 15:32   ` Björn Töpel
2026-10-10 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] riscv/mm: fix missing destructor for hotplug PUD tables Muchun Song
2026-10-12 15:35   ` Björn Töpel
2026-10-10 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64/mm: fix destructor for unconstructed hotplug page tables Muchun Song
2026-10-12 13:30   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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