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Qi Zheng f21bb37afb mm: pgtable: make generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc
Patch series "remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()", v2.

As suggested by Peter Zijlstra below [1], this series aims to remove
tlb_remove_page_ptdesc().

: Fundamentally tlb_remove_page() is about removing *pages* as from a PTE,
: there should not be a page-table anywhere near here *ever*.
:
: Yes, some architectures use tlb_remove_page() for page-tables too, but
: that is more or less an implementation detail that can be fixed.

After this series, all architectures use tlb_remove_table() or
tlb_remove_ptdesc() to remove the page table pages.  In the future, once
all architectures using tlb_remove_table() have also converted to using
struct ptdesc (eg.  powerpc), it may be possible to use only
tlb_remove_ptdesc().

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103111457.GC22934@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/


This patch (of 6):

Now only arm will call tlb_remove_ptdesc()/tlb_remove_table() when
CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE is disabled.  In this case, the type of the
table parameter is actually struct ptdesc * instead of struct page *.

Since struct ptdesc still overlaps with struct page and has not been
separated from it, forcing the table parameter to struct page * will not
cause any problems at this time.  But this is definitely incorrect and
needs to be fixed.  So just like the generic __tlb_remove_table(), let
generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc by default when
CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE is disabled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1740454179.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5be8c3ab7bd68510bf0db4cf84010f4dfe372917.1740454179.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch microblaze/mm: put mm_cmdline_setup() in .init.text section 2025-04-01 15:17:13 -07:00
block for-6.15/block-20250322 2025-03-26 18:08:55 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
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