From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 305CB34C155; Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776769942; cv=none; b=kAJ5yTXn49pqDEiIMkLKMCL/DELfmnb7eozGo4XVRXoIcYucPPVfI8XsU1qgghC1cAiXZlwVk6hBSum2l94UJzabbLZoVwa5hdMd4x462mKruOExMKuvb1NgDlxAokJn9H2yrz8vTK4mBvEldxX0jdW8ZV6m5e9IuY+ldtCsVB8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776769942; c=relaxed/simple; bh=h0ZfPS8N0B54B+EWjuQ7SygZYX7IrUZB4L9pra+xp04=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:From:To:Cc:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=MpWkGj/F3U8nq6+H3KisWQY8oYOModl0P7niR75uV85e/p58puJk9y2nXCjXVJ+89cDf5SxVlUE9k/927Mil395yjtug8/qGQD8NY5zoZMTspf8rvZblYnVs4kN/2j7wD2dxScJ2vEH3ZMFG0r6BnYsFfNozKeb/f+a9dYcso6w= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=vHYYWGIQ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="vHYYWGIQ" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3E6CC2BCB0; Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:12:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1776769941; bh=h0ZfPS8N0B54B+EWjuQ7SygZYX7IrUZB4L9pra+xp04=; h=Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=vHYYWGIQ+rmLOH/dplvjRPF4vYo2dyyx6zOOYaYT+TEKlyOq5K/savikcr+8DwtZq TU83RqsoUo7DFezsnyPSWhV0niz/XQHBSYlPWAMylIBL0rYeM1jXoROAv6f/EztRd1 4DHS0P8/EmC7je2SNtQcdoHhpw1EcnO4wBTdzpE1zazgVq6kvJdl1lItBLr/rMNYoA eHGNLz0Jm0s/YOSycNCe0KhMXrtjUeurXmivk101OPP9HaFMgOMfrSw2ZhCWsoBM8T cFYLWV8cxRik7tETOXqO2it1/wvqXFRQYZwKRNhN1TAhuCfIB94QSrQX+CklKnP8Ip Q9+jThh6/X0gw== Message-ID: <068cdadf-d979-4170-9ff3-2468f46e9786@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:12:15 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 11/18] mm: skip zeroing in vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio for pre-zeroed pages From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" To: "Michael S. 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Tsirkin wrote: >> Use vma_alloc_folio_hints() and check PGHINT_ZEROED to skip >> clear_user_highpage() when the page is already zeroed. >> >> On x86, vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio is overridden by a macro >> that uses __GFP_ZERO directly, so this change has no effect there. >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin >> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 >> Assisted-by: cursor-agent:GPT-5.4-xhigh >> --- >> include/linux/highmem.h | 6 ++++-- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h >> index af03db851a1d..8bb67772c1cb 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/highmem.h >> +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h >> @@ -321,9 +321,11 @@ struct folio *vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, >> unsigned long vaddr) >> { >> struct folio *folio; >> + pghint_t hints; >> >> - folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma, vaddr); >> - if (folio && user_alloc_needs_zeroing()) >> + folio = vma_alloc_folio_hints(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma, vaddr, >> + &hints); >> + if (folio && user_alloc_needs_zeroing() && !(hints & PGHINT_ZEROED)) >> clear_user_highpage(&folio->page, vaddr); >> >> return folio; > > > For others reading along, the variant on your other branch: > > diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h > index af03db851a1d9..ffa683f64f1d1 100644 > --- a/include/linux/highmem.h > +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h > @@ -320,13 +320,8 @@ static inline > struct folio *vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, > unsigned long vaddr) > { > - struct folio *folio; > - > - folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma, vaddr); > - if (folio && user_alloc_needs_zeroing()) > - clear_user_highpage(&folio->page, vaddr); > - > - return folio; > + return vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, > + 0, vma, vaddr); > } > #endif > > Looks like an extremely clean interface. > And we could likely just do the following on top I assume. diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h index d2532bc407ef..f511b763a235 100644 --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h @@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ extern unsigned long memory_end; #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg) copy_page(to, from) -#define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \ - vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, 0, vma, vaddr) - #define __pa(vaddr) ((unsigned long)(vaddr)) #define __va(paddr) ((void *)((unsigned long)(paddr))) diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h index 56da819a79e6..e995d2a413f9 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/page.h @@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ static inline void copy_page(void *to, void *from) #define copy_user_page(to, from, vaddr, pg) copy_page(to, from) -#define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \ - vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, 0, vma, vaddr) - #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS #define STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS #endif diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h index 416dc88e35c1..92fa975b46f3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h @@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ static inline void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr, copy_page(to, from); } -#define vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vaddr) \ - vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, 0, vma, vaddr) - #ifndef __pa #define __pa(x) __phys_addr((unsigned long)(x)) #endif -- Cheers, David