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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2025-10-22 16:26:31 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-11-16 17:28:17 -0800
commit01894295672335ff304beed4359f30d14d5765f2 (patch)
tree32abd8d85fd5a5e4e6714f60734194f51180e97c /include
parent412d000346ea38ac4b9bb715a86c73ef89d90dea (diff)
mm: introduce pure page table freeing function
The pages used for ptdescs are currently freed back to the allocator in a single location. They will shortly be freed from a second location. Create a simple helper that just frees them back to the allocator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-6-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com> Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8f46048875a7..88c0a0fae43a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3046,6 +3046,13 @@ static inline struct ptdesc *pagetable_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int orde
}
#define pagetable_alloc(...) alloc_hooks(pagetable_alloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
+static inline void __pagetable_free(struct ptdesc *pt)
+{
+ struct page *page = ptdesc_page(pt);
+
+ __free_pages(page, compound_order(page));
+}
+
/**
* pagetable_free - Free pagetables
* @pt: The page table descriptor
@@ -3055,12 +3062,10 @@ static inline struct ptdesc *pagetable_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int orde
*/
static inline void pagetable_free(struct ptdesc *pt)
{
- struct page *page = ptdesc_page(pt);
-
if (ptdesc_test_kernel(pt))
ptdesc_clear_kernel(pt);
- __free_pages(page, compound_order(page));
+ __pagetable_free(pt);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS)