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David Hildenbrand 8db00ad564 mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual type
As long as the owner sets a page type first, we can allow reuse of the
lower 16 bit: sufficient to store an offset into a 64 KiB page, which is
the maximum base page size in *common* configurations (ignoring the 256
KiB variant).  Restrict it to the head page.

We'll use that for zsmalloc next, to set a proper type while still reusing
that field to store information (offset into a base page) that cannot go
elsewhere for now.

Let's reserve the lower 16 bit for that purpose and for catching mapcount
underflows, and let's reduce PAGE_TYPE_BASE to a single bit.

Note that we will still have to overflow the mapcount quite a lot until we
would actually indicate a valid page type.

Start handing out the type bits from highest to lowest, to make it clearer
how many bits for types we have left.  Out of 15 bit we can use for types,
we currently use 6.  If we run out of bits before we have better typing
(e.g., memdesc), we can always investigate storing a value instead [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/00ba1dff-7c05-46e8-b0d9-a78ac1cfc198@redhat.com/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix PG_hugetlb typo, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240529111904.2069608-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>	[zram/zsmalloc workloads]
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03 19:30:16 -07:00
arch arch/x86: do not explicitly clear Reserved flag in free_pagetable 2024-07-03 19:30:02 -07:00
block block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter 2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation Docs/damon: document damos_migrate_{hot,cold} 2024-07-03 19:30:13 -07:00
drivers ata fixes for 6.10-rc6 2024-06-30 14:32:24 -07:00
fs nilfs2: fix incorrect inode allocation from reserved inodes 2024-07-03 19:30:16 -07:00
include mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual type 2024-07-03 19:30:16 -07:00
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ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel mm: optimize the redundant loop of mm_update_owner_next() 2024-07-03 19:30:15 -07:00
lib lib: test_hmm: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-07-03 19:30:05 -07:00
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sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.10 2024-06-26 22:02:55 +02:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.