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From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,  Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	 Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	 Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>,
	 Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	 Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	 Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 05/14] mm/hugetlb: use direct assignment instead of folio_change_private()
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:13:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731-remove-pg_private-v1-5-142c97ba3562@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260731-remove-pg_private-v1-0-142c97ba3562@nvidia.com>

folio_change_private() should be used along with folio_attach_private() and
folio_detach_private(), where adding and remove ->private content requires
folio refcount change. add_hugetlb_folio() simply sets folio->private to
NULL without refcount manipulation. Change it to direct assignment to avoid
semantic confusion.

It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.

No funtional change intended.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a77c3c1cb8943..0abaeb47890cb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1433,10 +1433,10 @@ void add_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio,
 	}
 
 	__folio_set_hugetlb(folio);
-	folio_change_private(folio, NULL);
+	folio->private = NULL;
 	/*
-	 * We have to set hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized again as above
-	 * folio_change_private(folio, NULL) cleared it.
+	 * We have to set hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized again as hugetlb page flags
+	 * are all cleared above.
 	 */
 	folio_set_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio);
 

-- 
2.53.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-01  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-01  2:13 [PATCH RFC 00/14] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 01/14] mm/zsmalloc: replace PG_private with pointer comparison Zi Yan
2026-08-01 14:12   ` Usama Arif
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 02/14] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker Zi Yan
2026-08-01 14:32   ` Usama Arif
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 03/14] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping Zi Yan
2026-08-01 14:42   ` Usama Arif
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 04/14] fs/crypto: stop setting PG_private on bounce page Zi Yan
2026-08-01 14:52   ` Usama Arif
2026-08-01  2:13 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 06/14] fs/f2fs: stop using PG_private Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 07/14] fs/erofs: mm/pagemap: add readahead_folio_reverse() to avoid folio->private Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 08/14] fs/erofs: use folio_attach/detach_private() instead of direct assignment Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 09/14] mm/page-flags: check page/folio->private instead of PG_private Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 10/14] mm/page-flags: introduce folio_test_fs_private() Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 11/14] treewide: remove folio_set/clear_private() Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 12/14] treewide: replace PagePrivate() with page_private() Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 13/14] treewide: adjust comments on PagePrivate and PG_private Zi Yan
2026-08-01  2:13 ` [PATCH RFC 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private Zi Yan

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