[PATCH v3 0/8] mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock

Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-29T12:02:34Z

This series uses spinlock guard for zone lock across several mm
functions to replace explicit lock/unlock patterns with automatic
scope-based cleanup.

This simplifies the control flow by removing 'flags' variables, goto
labels, and redundant unlock calls.

Patches are ordered by decreasing value. The first six patches simplify
the control flow by removing gotos, multiple unlock paths, or 'ret'
variables. The last two are simpler lock/unlock pair conversions that
only remove 'flags' and can be dropped if considered unnecessary churn.

Binary size increase is +39 bytes, with Peter Zijlstra's fix for guards
[1] applied (already in mm-stable). This is due to the compiler not
being able to deduplicate epilogue and eliminate redundant NULL check.
See discussion [2] for more details. I proposed a patch [3] that fixes
this, but until it is merged we need to assume +39 bytes will stay
(though it is compiler dependent).

Based on mm-stable.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

v2 -> v3:
- Rebased on top of mm-stable.
- Added Acked-by from Michal.

v1 -> v2:

- Andrew Morton raised concerns about binary size increase in v1.
Peter Zijlstra has since fixed the underlying issue in the guards
infrastructure in tip [1].
- Rebased on mm-stable, since the patch this series depended on was
dropped from mm-new.
- Converted guard(zone_lock_irqsave)(zone) to
guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&zone->lock).
- Dropped redundant braces in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
(Steven Rostedt)

v2 resend: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1775654118.git.d@ilvokhin.com/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1774627568.git.d@ilvokhin.com/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1772811429.git.d@ilvokhin.com/

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309164516.GE606826@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afC5C6fylF4AsITV@shell.ilvokhin.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260427165037.205337-1-d@ilvokhin.com/

Dmitry Ilvokhin (8):
mm: use zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock()
mm: use zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate()
mm: use zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
mm: use zone lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate()
mm: use zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy()
mm: use zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy()
mm: use zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk()
mm: use zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages()

mm/page_alloc.c | 53 ++++++++++++-----------------------
mm/page_isolation.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

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