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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2023-07-11 21:39:48 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-18 10:12:24 -0700
commit13cf577e6b66a148d6d63f5ef7801f4b61d5850f (patch)
tree9b3d6b32e9aeff745eb7356d7e97459d99536321 /include/linux/mm_types.h
parent8211dad6279817a8966ff6b74c2c588dd4166f45 (diff)
mm/pgtable: add pte_free_defer() for pgtable as page
Add the generic pte_free_defer(), to call pte_free() via call_rcu(). pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables() loop, where allocating extra memory cannot be relied upon. This version suits all those architectures which use an unfragmented page for one page table (none of whose pte_free()s use the mm arg which was passed to it). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/78e921b0-b681-a1b0-dc20-44c9efa4ef3c@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 51d04c1847c1..1fc4b9c2c8a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ struct page {
struct { /* Page table pages */
unsigned long _pt_pad_1; /* compound_head */
pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page->ptl */
+ /*
+ * A PTE page table page might be freed by use of
+ * rcu_head: which overlays those two fields above.
+ */
unsigned long _pt_pad_2; /* mapping */
union {
struct mm_struct *pt_mm; /* x86 pgds only */