[PATCHv6 08/17] mm: Make page_zonenum() use head page

Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-02T15:57:50Z

With the upcoming changes to HVO, a single page of tail struct pages
will be shared across all huge pages of the same order on a node. Since
huge pages on the same node may belong to different zones, the zone
information stored in shared tail page flags would be incorrect.

Always fetch zone information from the head page, which has unique and
correct zone flags for each compound page.

Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index be8ce40b5638..192143b5cdc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1219,6 +1219,7 @@ static inline enum zone_type memdesc_zonenum(memdesc_flags_t flags)

static inline enum zone_type page_zonenum(const struct page *page)
{
+ page = compound_head(page);
return memdesc_zonenum(page->flags);
}

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