linux.git/include/linux/pgtable.h, branch v7.1-rc3

mm: change to return bool for pmdp_clear_flush_young()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

The pmdp_clear_flush_young() is used to clear the young flag and flush the
TLB, returning whether the young flag was set for this PMD entry.  Change
the return type to bool to make the intention clearer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a668b9a974c0d675e7a41f6973bcbe3336e8b373.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: change to return bool for pmdp_test_and_clear_young()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

Callers use pmdp_test_and_clear_young() to clear the young flag and check
whether it was set for this PMD entry.  Change the return type to bool to
make the intention clearer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1d31307a13365d3d0fed5809727dcc2dd59631b.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: change to return bool for ptep_clear_flush_young()/clear_flush_young_ptes()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

The ptep_clear_flush_young() and clear_flush_young_ptes() are used to
clear the young flag and flush the TLB, returning whether the young flag
was set.  Change the return type to bool to make the intention clearer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24af5144b96103631594501f77d4525f2475c1be.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: change to return bool for ptep_test_and_clear_young()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

Patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool", v2.

This is a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check functions to
return bool, as discussed with David in the previous thread[1].  Since
callers only care about whether the young flag was set, returning bool
makes the intention clearer.  No functional changes intended.


This patch (of 6):

Callers use ptep_test_and_clear_young() to clear the young flag and check
whether it was set.  Change the return type to bool to make the intention
clearer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57e70efa9703d43959aa645246ea3cbdba14fa17.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add a batched helper to clear the young flag for large folios

2026-04-05T20:53:16+00:00

Currently, MGLRU will call ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify() to check and
clear the young flag for each PTE sequentially, which is inefficient for
large folios reclamation.

Moreover, on Arm64 architecture, which supports contiguous PTEs, the
Arm64- specific ptep_test_and_clear_young() already implements an
optimization to clear the young flags for PTEs within a contiguous range. 
However, this is not sufficient.  Similar to the Arm64 specific
clear_flush_young_ptes(), we can extend this to perform batched operations
for the entire large folio (which might exceed the contiguous range:
CONT_PTE_SIZE).

Thus, we can introduce a new batched helper: test_and_clear_young_ptes()
and its wrapper test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() which are consistent
with the existing functions, to perform batched checking of the young
flags for large folios, which can help improve performance during large
folio reclamation when MGLRU is enabled.  And it will be overridden by the
architecture that implements a more efficient batch operation in the
following patches.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/23ec671bfcc06cd24ee0fbff8e329402742274a0.1772778858.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Alistair Popple 
Cc: Axel Rasmussen 
Cc: Barry Song 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Dev Jain 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Qi Zheng 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Ryan Roberts 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Wei Xu 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yuanchu Xie 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: replace READ_ONCE() in pud_trans_unstable()

2026-04-05T20:53:11+00:00

Replace READ_ONCE() with the existing standard page table accessor for PUD
aka pudp_get() in pud_trans_unstable().  This does not create any
functional change for platforms that do not override pudp_get(), which
still defaults to READ_ONCE().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227040300.2091901-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Acked-by: SeongJae Park 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: cache struct page for empty_zero_page and return it from ZERO_PAGE()

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

For most architectures every invocation of ZERO_PAGE() does
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).  But empty_zero_page is in BSS and it is
enough to get its struct page once at initialization time and then use it
whenever a zero page should be accessed.

Add yet another __zero_page variable that will be initialized as
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page) for most architectures in a weak
arch_setup_zero_pages() function.

For architectures that use colored zero pages (MIPS and s390) rename their
setup_zero_pages() to arch_setup_zero_pages() and make it global rather
than static.

For architectures that cannot use virt_to_page() for BSS (arm64 and
sparc64) add override of arch_setup_zero_pages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of
ZERO_PAGE() to 4.

Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the
most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions
of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).

Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the
core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement
colored zero page (MIPS and s390).

ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static
inline causes severe pain in header dependencies.

For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy:

* alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot
  parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing
  and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only
* arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of
  ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact.
* m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock,
  although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS
  will work fine.
* sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it
  can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE()
  but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to
  empty_zero_page.
* sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot.
  Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic
  empty_zero_page.
* hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page

	/* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */

  that unfortunately had to go :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 		[parisc]
Tested-by: Helge Deller 		[parisc]
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm 	[alpha]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen 	[nios2]
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson 	[sparc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: rename my_zero_pfn() to zero_pfn()

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

my_zero_pfn() is a silly name.

Rename zero_pfn variable to zero_page_pfn and my_zero_pfn() function to
zero_pfn().

While on it, move extern declarations of zero_page_pfn outside the
functions that use it and add a comment about what ZERO_PAGE is.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: don't special case !MMU for is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn()

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

Patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page", v3.

These patches cleanup handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn.


This patch (of 4):

nommu architectures have empty_zero_page and define ZERO_PAGE() and
although they don't really use it to populate page tables, there is no
reason to hardwire !MMU implementation of is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn()
to 0.

Drop #ifdef CONFIG_MMU around implementations of is_zero_pfn() and
my_zero_pfn() and remove !MMU version.

While on it, make zero_pfn __ro_after_init.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton