[PATCH v2 0/6] mm: page_type, zsmalloc and page_mapcount_reset()

David Hildenbrand
2024-05-29T11:19:11Z

Wanting to remove the remaining abuser of _mapcount/page_type along with
page_mapcount_reset(), I stumbled over zsmalloc, which is yet to be
converted away from "struct page" [1].

Unfortunately, we cannot stop using the page_type field in zsmalloc code
completely for its own purposes. All other fields in "struct page" are
used one way or the other. Could we simply store a 2-byte offset value
at the beginning of each page? Likely, but that will require a bit more
work; and once we have memdesc we might want to move the offset in there
(struct zsalloc?) again.

... but we can limit the abuse to 16 bit, glue it to a page type that
must be set, and document it. page_has_type() will always successfully
indicate such zsmalloc pages, and such zsmalloc pages only.

We lose zsmalloc support for PAGE_SIZE > 64KB, which should be tolerable.
We could use more bits from the page type, but 16 bit sounds like a good
idea for now.

So clarify the _mapcount/page_type documentation, use a proper page_type
for zsmalloc, and remove page_mapcount_reset().

Briefly tested with zram on x86-64.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231130101242.2590384-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com/

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>

v1 -> v2:
* Rebased to mm/mm-unstable
* "mm: update _mapcount and page_type documentation"
-> Minor comment change
* "mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual
type"
-> Fixup 18 vs 16 in description
-> Reduce PAGE_TYPE_BASE to a single bit and hand-out bits from highest
to lowest
-> Adjust description

RFC -> v1:
* Rebased to v6.10-rc1
* "mm: update _mapcount and page_type documentation"
-> Exchange members and fixup doc as suggested by Mike
* "mm: allow reuse of the lower 16bit of the page type with an actual
type"
-> Remove "highest bit" comment, fixup PG_buddy, extend description
* "mm/zsmalloc: use a proper page type"
-> Add and use HAVE_ZSMALLOC to fixup compilcation
-> Fixup BUILD_BUG_ON
-> Add some VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageZsmalloc(page));
* "mm/mm_init: initialize page->_mapcount directly
in __init_single_page()"
-> Fixup patch subject

David Hildenbrand (6):
mm: update _mapcount and page_type documentation
mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual
type
mm/zsmalloc: use a proper page type
mm/page_alloc: clear PageBuddy using __ClearPageBuddy() for bad pages
mm/filemap: reinitialize folio->_mapcount directly
mm/mm_init: initialize page->_mapcount directly in
__init_single_page()

drivers/block/zram/Kconfig | 1 +
include/linux/mm.h | 10 ----------
include/linux/mm_types.h | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
include/linux/page-flags.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
mm/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++--
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
mm/mm_init.c | 2 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++--
mm/zsmalloc.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
9 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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