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[159.2.239.150]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-93922e5278fsm886283685a.14.2026.09.01.09.06.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1x1R04-0000000BtB8-1Fgr; Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:06:16 -0300 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 13:06:16 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau , "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Zi Yan , Baolin Wang , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Usama Arif , Guo Ren , Brian Cain , Geert Uytterhoeven , Dinh Nguyen , Simon Schuster , Jonas Bonn , Stefan Kristiansson , Stafford Horne , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Russell King , Vineet Gupta , Michal Simek , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Will Deacon , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , "David S. Miller" , Andreas Larsson , Richard Henderson , Matt Turner , Magnus Lindholm , Catalin Marinas , Mark Rutland , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Thomas Bogendoerfer , "James E.J. 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Peter Anvin" , Arnd Bergmann , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , John Hubbard , Peter Xu , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Hugh Dickins , Qi Zheng Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] mm/huge_memory: zap deposited page tables after an RCU grace period Message-ID: <20260901160616.GD56830@ziepe.ca> References: <20260901-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v1-0-5456a81c8212@kernel.org> <20260901-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v1-1-5456a81c8212@kernel.org> <20260901142408.GA56830@ziepe.ca> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 11:54:47AM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote: > On 26/09/01 04:28PM, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 03:41:17PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 11:24:08AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 03:12:45PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > > > > > > > > > It won't be costly at the time of the calls obviously as its deferred. Maybe > > > > > increase some time spent in softirq but again is 512x that big of a deal? > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure how you'd both defer the free and somehow utilise mmu_gather here > > > > > either really, certainly not without it becoming extremely messy. > > > > > > > > The less costly version is to thread the page to be freed onto the > > > > mmu_gather through a linked list in the struct page memory. This is > > > > super cheap since it is just a singly linked list operation. > > > > > > > > Then when the mmu_gather is flushed it does a single call_rcu using > > > > the rcu head of the struct page of the head of the list. The callback > > > > clears the entire linked list of pages. > > If you are going through the trouble of doing this on your side with a > custom rcu callback, it might be better to pack the pointers in a way > that does not need to pointer chase through a linked list. Well, I have 8 bytes of memory in a struct page and can't allocate in these paths, so IDK there is another option.. Jason