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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: switch device DAX to shared tail vmemmap pages
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:02:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260911050228.58884-7-songmuchun@bytedance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260911050228.58884-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

HugeTLB vmemmap optimization now uses per-zone shared tail vmemmap pages.
Device DAX has not been switched to that mechanism yet.

Switch device DAX to vmemmap_shared_tail_page() as well. This aligns DAX
with HugeTLB by using the common per-zone shared tail vmemmap page.

The optimization is enabled only for DEV-DAX through pgmap->vmemmap_shift,
which supplies the compound page order recorded in section metadata before
vmemmap population. Unlike FS-DAX, DEV-DAX does not modify tail struct
pages, so sharing them is safe.

Since the shared tail page can now back ZONE_DEVICE vmemmap mappings,
initialize its entries with PG_reserved for device zones. Also skip
poisoning vmemmap-optimizable sections while their struct pages may be
shared.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
---
v3:
- Move device_zone() after the definition of NODE_DATA() to fix
  non-NUMA builds.
- Update the commit message to describe the compound page order stored
  in section metadata
- Collect Acked-by from Qi Zheng

v2:
- Explain why sharing tail vmemmap pages is safe for DEV-DAX
  (suggested by Qi Zheng)
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 10 +++++++++
 mm/memory_hotplug.c    |  6 ++++--
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c    | 47 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 1a18c1c40c8c..f8a2d823f7de 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -2149,11 +2149,21 @@ static inline int online_device_section(const struct mem_section *section)
 
 	return section && ((section->section_mem_map & flags) == flags);
 }
+
+static inline struct zone *device_zone(int nid)
+{
+	return &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[ZONE_DEVICE];
+}
 #else
 static inline int online_device_section(const struct mem_section *section)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+
+static inline struct zone *device_zone(int nid)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
 #endif
 
 static inline int online_section_nr(unsigned long nr)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index b428da66d279..d7a59167bec4 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include "mm_init.h"
 #include "page_alloc.h"
 #include "shuffle.h"
+#include "sparse.h"
 
 enum {
 	MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_DISABLE = 0,
@@ -554,8 +555,9 @@ void remove_pfn_range_from_zone(struct zone *zone,
 		/* Select all remaining pages up to the next section boundary */
 		cur_nr_pages =
 			min(end_pfn - pfn, SECTION_ALIGN_UP(pfn + 1) - pfn);
-		page_init_poison(pfn_to_page(pfn),
-				 sizeof(struct page) * cur_nr_pages);
+		if (!section_vmemmap_optimizable(__pfn_to_section(pfn)))
+			page_init_poison(pfn_to_page(pfn),
+					 sizeof(struct page) * cur_nr_pages);
 	}
 
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 02da1321197d..7b5b9ceec697 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ struct page __ref *vmemmap_shared_tail_page(unsigned int order, struct zone *zon
 		set_page_node(page, zone_to_nid(zone));
 		set_page_zone(page, zone_idx(zone));
 		prep_compound_tail(page, NULL, order);
+		if (zone_is_zone_device(zone))
+			__SetPageReserved(page);
 	}
 
 	page = virt_to_page(addr);
@@ -490,23 +492,6 @@ static bool __meminit reuse_compound_section(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	return !IS_ALIGNED(offset, nr_pages) && nr_pages > PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION;
 }
 
-static pte_t * __meminit compound_section_tail_page(unsigned long addr)
-{
-	pte_t *pte;
-
-	addr -= PAGE_SIZE;
-
-	/*
-	 * Assuming sections are populated sequentially, the previous section's
-	 * page data can be reused.
-	 */
-	pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd_off_k(addr), addr);
-	if (!pte)
-		return NULL;
-
-	return pte;
-}
-
 static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 						     unsigned long start,
 						     unsigned long end, int node,
@@ -516,21 +501,18 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	pte_t *pte;
 	int rc;
 	unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_POPULATE_DAX;
+	struct page *page;
+	unsigned int order = pfn_to_section_compound_order(start_pfn);
 
-	if (reuse_compound_section(start_pfn, pgmap)) {
-		pte = compound_section_tail_page(start);
-		if (!pte)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+	page = vmemmap_shared_tail_page(order, device_zone(node));
+	if (!page)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
-		/*
-		 * Reuse the page that was populated in the prior iteration
-		 * with just tail struct pages.
-		 */
+	if (reuse_compound_section(start_pfn, pgmap))
 		return vmemmap_populate_range(start, end, node, NULL,
-					      pte_pfn(ptep_get(pte)), flags);
-	}
+					      page_to_pfn(page), flags);
 
-	size = min(end - start, pgmap_vmemmap_nr(pgmap) * sizeof(struct page));
+	size = min(end - start, (1UL << order) * sizeof(struct page));
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += size) {
 		unsigned long next, last = addr + size;
 
@@ -546,12 +528,12 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		/*
-		 * Reuse the previous page for the rest of tail pages
+		 * Reuse the shared page for the rest of tail pages
 		 * See layout diagram in Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
 		 */
 		next += PAGE_SIZE;
 		rc = vmemmap_populate_range(next, last, node, NULL,
-					    pte_pfn(ptep_get(pte)), flags);
+					    page_to_pfn(page), flags);
 		if (rc)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
@@ -883,13 +865,14 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
 	if (IS_ERR(memmap))
 		return PTR_ERR(memmap);
 
+	ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
 	/*
 	 * Poison uninitialized struct pages in order to catch invalid flags
 	 * combinations.
 	 */
-	page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages);
+	if (!section_vmemmap_optimizable(ms))
+		page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages);
 
-	ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
 	__section_mark_present(ms, section_nr);
 
 	/* Align memmap to section boundary in the subsection case */
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-11  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-11  5:02 [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: Switch device DAX to section-based vmemmap optimization Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: introduce CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: factor out shared vmemmap tail page allocation Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code init_compound_tail() Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: prepare DAX vmemmap population for compound page orders Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: set compound page order for device DAX Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` Muchun Song [this message]
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: move vmemmap optimization helpers to a public header Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] powerpc/mm: switch device DAX to shared tail vmemmap pages Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: drop the extra tail page from device DAX reservation Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: drop unused section_nr_vmemmap_pages() arguments Muchun Song
2026-09-11  5:02 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] Documentation/mm: update DAX vmemmap deduplication docs Muchun Song

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