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Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:14:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <85a0be43-3598-435d-a50e-9403b7e963f7@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:13:47 +0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/pgtable: convert pgtable_t to ptdesc pointer From: Alex Shi To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport , alexs@kernel.org, Richard Henderson , Matt Turner , Magnus Lindholm , Vineet Gupta , Russell King , Will Deacon , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , Catalin Marinas , Guo Ren , Brian Cain , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Dinh Nguyen , Jonas Bonn , Stefan Kristiansson , Stafford Horne , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Arnd Bergmann , David Hildenbrand , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , "open list:ALPHA PORT" , open list , "open list:SYNOPSYS ARC ARCHITECTURE" , "moderated list:ARM PORT" , "open list:MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION" , "open list:MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION" , "open list:C-SKY ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:QUALCOMM HEXAGON ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:LOONGARCH" , "open list:M68K ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:MIPS" , "open list:OPENRISC ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:PARISC ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:RISC-V ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:SUPERH" , "open list:USER-MODE LINUX (UML)" References: <20260107064642.15771-1-alexs@kernel.org> <080e493a-e4f1-4c97-a3e1-f76f126b5213@gmail.com> <1d110134-89ab-474b-bca6-cfbfd4b5057f@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1d110134-89ab-474b-bca6-cfbfd4b5057f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2026/1/8 10:23, Alex Shi wrote: > > > On 2026/1/7 22:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 05:28:36PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >>> Right, I will fix this. and sent the 2nd version. >> No, the patch is stupid and wrong.  Don't send a v2.  You seem to have a >> hairtrigger resend, so I'm trying to prevent a v2 being sent instead of >> sending a patient reply. > > Hi Matthew, > > I hear you—no v2 will be sent. > but sorry for a bit confusing, what's your expected fix? is the too > quick resenting? or the direction to alignment pgtable_t with ptdesc is > wrong? Hi Willy, Do you mind to share the detailed concern for this patch? Thanks > > If it's the first. the new change for review address Mike's concern. > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/ > pgalloc.h > index a17f01235c29..a204c3ac800a 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h > @@ -94,13 +94,13 @@ pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm) >  static inline pgtable_t >  pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm) >  { > -       struct page *pte; > +       struct ptdesc *pte; > >         pte = __pte_alloc_one(mm, GFP_PGTABLE_USER | PGTABLE_HIGHMEM); >         if (!pte) >                 return NULL; > -       if (!PageHighMem(pte)) > -               clean_pte_table(page_address(pte)); > +       if (!PageHighMem(ptdesc_page(pte))) > +               clean_pte_table(ptdesc_address(pte)); >         return pte; >  } > > @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ pmd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp, > pgtable_t ptep) >         else >                 prot = _PAGE_USER_TABLE; > > -       __pmd_populate(pmdp, page_to_phys(ptep), prot); > +       __pmd_populate(pmdp, page_to_phys(ptdesc_page(ptep)), prot); >  } > >  #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */