linux-kernel - Re: [v5 01/15] mm/zone_device: support large zone device private folios

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Message-ID: <ce40579b-4ded-473b-8fdb-a41d5b5021d5@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:49:16 +1000
From: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: damon@...ts.linux.dev, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
 Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@...il.com>, Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>,
 Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>,
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 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
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 Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>,
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 Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [v5 01/15] mm/zone_device: support large zone device private
 folios

On 9/11/25 22:52, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 11.09.25 14:49, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> On 9/11/25 21:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 08.09.25 02:04, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>>> Add routines to support allocation of large order zone device folios
>>>> and helper functions for zone device folios, to check if a folio is
>>>> device private and helpers for setting zone device data.
>>>>
>>>> When large folios are used, the existing page_free() callback in
>>>> pgmap is called when the folio is freed, this is true for both
>>>> PAGE_SIZE and higher order pages.
>>>>
>>>> Zone device private large folios do not support deferred split and
>>>> scan like normal THP folios.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>>>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>>>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
>>>> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@...il.com>
>>>> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>
>>>> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
>>>> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
>>>> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>>> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
>>>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
>>>> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
>>>> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>>> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
>>>> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
>>>> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
>>>> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
>>>> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>
>>>> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
>>>> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
>>>> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
>>>> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
>>>> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>
>>>> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>
>>>> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@...el.com>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> You missed my comments of this patch in v3.
>>>
>>
>> Hi, David
>>
>> Looks I missed your comments, just checked those were largely about alignment and
>> integrating the code for DEVICE_COHERENT and DEVICE_PRIVATE cases into similar looking
>> bits for zone device folio free and code-alignment. I'll take a look and update as needed.
> 
> Yes, and the confusing folio->mapping = NULL that I cannot connect to THP support.
> 

I can remove that, let me reunify those bits, seems relatively straight forward

Balbir