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[80.230.48.7]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-48e8f63beb7sm30481905e9.35.2026.05.12.14.07.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 12 May 2026 14:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 17:07:41 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?utf-8?B?UMOpcmV6?= , Muchun Song , Oscar Salvador , Andrew Morton , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Brendan Jackman , Johannes Weiner , Zi Yan , Baolin Wang , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Hugh Dickins , Matthew Brost , Joshua Hahn , Rakie Kim , Byungchul Park , Gregory Price , Ying Huang , Alistair Popple , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Harry Yoo , Axel Rasmussen , Yuanchu Xie , Wei Xu , Chris Li , Kairui Song , Kemeng Shi , Nhat Pham , Baoquan He , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Qi Zheng , Shakeel Butt , Youngjun Park Subject: [PATCH v7 29/31] mm: add put_page_zeroed and folio_put_zeroed Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtualization@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0.106.g8ac3dc51b1 X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: RtbAVxKmjD_sKsK1yDmZvcIXmf7I4Jvo7VoikxvAkQc_1778620067 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Add put_page_zeroed() / folio_put_zeroed() for callers that hold a reference to a page known to be zeroed. If this drops the last reference, the page goes through __folio_put_zeroed() which calls free_frozen_pages_zeroed() so the zeroed hint is preserved. If someone else still holds a reference, the hint is simply lost - this is best-effort. This is useful for balloon drivers during deflation: the host has already zeroed the pages, and the balloon is typically the sole owner. But if the page happens to be shared, silently dropping the hint is safe and avoids the need for callers to check the refcount. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 --- include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++ mm/swap.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 3b1ca90fd435..4c51b7bd7576 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1913,6 +1913,7 @@ static inline struct folio *virt_to_folio(const void *x) } void __folio_put(struct folio *folio); +void __folio_put_zeroed(struct folio *folio); void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order); void folio_copy(struct folio *dst, struct folio *src); @@ -2090,6 +2091,17 @@ static inline void folio_put(struct folio *folio) __folio_put(folio); } +static inline void folio_put_zeroed(struct folio *folio) +{ + if (folio_put_testzero(folio)) + __folio_put_zeroed(folio); +} + +static inline void put_page_zeroed(struct page *page) +{ + folio_put_zeroed(page_folio(page)); +} + /** * folio_put_refs - Reduce the reference count on a folio. * @folio: The folio. diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index 5cc44f0de987..8d57223dfe34 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static void page_cache_release(struct folio *folio) lruvec_unlock_irqrestore(lruvec, flags); } -void __folio_put(struct folio *folio) +static void ___folio_put(struct folio *folio, bool zeroed) { if (unlikely(folio_is_zone_device(folio))) { free_zone_device_folio(folio); @@ -109,10 +109,24 @@ void __folio_put(struct folio *folio) page_cache_release(folio); folio_unqueue_deferred_split(folio); mem_cgroup_uncharge(folio); - free_frozen_pages(&folio->page, folio_order(folio)); + if (zeroed) + free_frozen_pages_zeroed(&folio->page, folio_order(folio)); + else + free_frozen_pages(&folio->page, folio_order(folio)); +} + +void __folio_put(struct folio *folio) +{ + ___folio_put(folio, false); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__folio_put); +void __folio_put_zeroed(struct folio *folio) +{ + ___folio_put(folio, true); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__folio_put_zeroed); + typedef void (*move_fn_t)(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio); static void lru_add(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio) -- MST