linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/12] mm/pgtable: add pte_free

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Date:   Sun, 28 May 2023 23:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 08/12] 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).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/pgtable.h |  2 ++
 mm/pgtable-generic.c    | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 8b0fc7fdc46f..62a8732d92f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ static inline void pte_unmap(pte_t *pte)
 }
 #endif
 
+void pte_free_defer(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t pgtable);
+
 /* Find an entry in the second-level page table.. */
 #ifndef pmd_offset
 static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index d28b63386cef..471697dcb244 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 
 /*
@@ -230,6 +231,25 @@ pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	return pmd;
 }
 #endif
+
+/* arch define pte_free_defer in asm/pgalloc.h for its own implementation */
+#ifndef pte_free_defer
+static void pte_free_now(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+
+	page = container_of(head, struct page, rcu_head);
+	pte_free(NULL /* mm not passed and not used */, (pgtable_t)page);
+}
+
+void pte_free_defer(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t pgtable)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+
+	page = pgtable;
+	call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, pte_free_now);
+}
+#endif /* pte_free_defer */
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH) && \
-- 
2.35.3