linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce CONFIG_PT

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Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2024 16:46:43 +0800
From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
To: david@...hat.com,
	hughd@...gle.com,
	willy@...radead.org,
	mgorman@...e.de,
	muchun.song@...ux.dev,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce CONFIG_PT_RECLAIM

This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed
to free empty user page table pages.

This feature is not available on all architectures yet, so
ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM is needed. We can remove it once all
architectures support this feature.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 991fa9cf6137..7e2c87784d86 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1256,6 +1256,20 @@ config IOMMU_MM_DATA
 config EXECMEM
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM
+	def_bool n
+
+config PT_RECLAIM
+	bool "reclaim empty user page table pages"
+	default y
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM && MMU && SMP
+	select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+	help
+	  Try to reclaim empty user page table pages in paths other that munmap
+	  and exit_mmap path.
+
+	  Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed.
+
 source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
 
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