linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large

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Message-ID: <20260127005140.197847-4-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:51:40 -0800
From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	x86@...nel.org,
	"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() to use ptdescs

In order to separately allocate ptdescs from pages, we need all allocation
and free sites to use the appropriate functions.

split_large_page() allocates a page to be used as a page table. This
should be allocating a ptdesc, so convert it.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index ded1ba11c68f..246b9cd3d13d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -1119,9 +1119,10 @@ static void split_set_pte(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *pte, unsigned long pfn,
 
 static int
 __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
-		   struct page *base)
+		   struct ptdesc *ptdesc)
 {
 	unsigned long lpaddr, lpinc, ref_pfn, pfn, pfninc = 1;
+	struct page *base = ptdesc_page(ptdesc);
 	pte_t *pbase = (pte_t *)page_address(base);
 	unsigned int i, level;
 	pgprot_t ref_prot;
@@ -1226,18 +1227,18 @@ __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
 static int split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte,
 			    unsigned long address)
 {
-	struct page *base;
+	struct ptdesc *ptdesc;
 
 	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
-	base = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+	ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
 	if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 		spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
-	if (!base)
+	if (!ptdesc)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (__split_large_page(cpa, kpte, address, base))
-		__free_page(base);
+	if (__split_large_page(cpa, kpte, address, ptdesc))
+		pagetable_free(ptdesc);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.52.0