Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] mm, pgtable: Add ownership for the PTE table

Chih-En Lin
2022-05-21T05:01:44Z

On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 05:02:43AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 02:31:24AM +0800, Chih-En Lin wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > index 8834e38c06a4..5dcbd7f6c361 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ struct page {
> > #ifdef LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
> > int _last_cpupid;
> > #endif
> > + pmd_t *cow_pte_owner; /* cow pte: pmd */
>
> This is definitely the wrong place. I think it could replace _pt_pad_1,
> since it's a pointer to a PMD and so the bottom bit will definitely
> be clear.
>

I will figure out how to use _pt_pad_1.
It seems relative to the compound page (or folio?).

Thanks.