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

Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-21T04:03:13Z

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.