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From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, security@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/8] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages
Date: Fri,  5 Sep 2025 13:50:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250905055103.3821518-4-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250905055103.3821518-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

There are a billion ways to refer to a physical memory address.
One of the x86 PMD freeing code location chooses to use a 'pte_t *' to
point to a PMD page and then call a PTE-specific freeing function for
it.  That's a bit wonky.

Just use a 'struct ptdesc *' instead. Its entire purpose is to refer
to page table pages. It also means being able to remove an explicit
cast.

Right now, pte_free_kernel() is a one-liner that calls
pagetable_dtor_free(). Effectively, all this patch does is
remove one superfluous __pa(__va(paddr)) conversion and then
call pagetable_dtor_free() directly instead of through a helper.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index ddf248c3ee7d..2e5ecfdce73c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
 int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd, *pmd_sv;
-	pte_t *pte;
+	struct ptdesc *pt;
 	int i;
 
 	pmd = pud_pgtable(*pud);
@@ -750,8 +750,8 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
 		if (!pmd_none(pmd_sv[i])) {
-			pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_sv[i]);
-			pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+			pt = page_ptdesc(pmd_page(pmd_sv[i]));
+			pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -772,15 +772,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
  */
 int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	pte_t *pte;
+	struct ptdesc *pt;
 
-	pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+	pt = page_ptdesc(pmd_page(*pmd));
 	pmd_clear(pmd);
 
 	/* INVLPG to clear all paging-structure caches */
 	flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE-1);
 
-	pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
+	pagetable_dtor_free(pt);
 
 	return 1;
 }
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-05  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-05  5:50 [PATCH v4 0/8] Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-09-05  5:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:24   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-12  7:58   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-05  5:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] mm: Actually mark kernel page table pages Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:24   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-12  7:59   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-05  5:50 ` Lu Baolu [this message]
2025-09-05 18:25   ` [PATCH v4 3/8] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-12  8:03   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-05  5:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] mm: Introduce pure page table freeing function Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:31   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-12  8:04   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-05  5:51 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] x86/mm: Use pagetable_free() Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:41   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-05 19:22     ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-05 20:11     ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-05 23:04       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-19  5:31       ` Baolu Lu
2025-09-05  5:51 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] mm: Introduce deferred freeing for kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:43   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-05 19:26     ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-12  8:17     ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-15 11:35       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-19  8:18         ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-12  8:14   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-15  1:16     ` Baolu Lu
2025-09-05  5:51 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] mm: Hook up Kconfig options for async page table freeing Lu Baolu
2025-09-05 18:44   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-12  8:19   ` Tian, Kevin
2025-09-05  5:51 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] iommu/sva: Invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu

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