Architectures frequently only care about the address associated with a page table. The current ptdesc api forced callers to acquire a ptdesc to use them. Add more apis to abstract ptdescs away from architectures that don't need the descriptor. This patch adds pgtable_alloc() and pgtable_free() to operate on the underlying addresses associated with page table descriptors, similar to get_free_pages() and free_pages(). The allocations will be zeroed since theres no reason to want a page table with stale data. Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) --- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++ mm/memory.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index f8a8fd47399c..3f3000567823 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -3419,6 +3419,10 @@ static inline void __pagetable_free(struct ptdesc *pt) __free_pages(page, compound_order(page)); } +unsigned long pgtable_alloc_addr_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order); +#define pgtable_alloc_addr(...) alloc_hooks(pgtable_alloc_addr_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) +void pgtable_free_addr(const void *addr); + #ifdef CONFIG_ASYNC_KERNEL_PGTABLE_FREE void pagetable_free_kernel(struct ptdesc *pt); #else diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index d6d273eb2189..96c4c4d06aa1 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -7451,6 +7451,40 @@ long copy_folio_from_user(struct folio *dst_folio, } #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */ +/** + * pgtable_alloc_addr - Allocate pagetables to get an address + * @gfp: GFP flags + * @order: desired pagetable order + * + * pgtable_alloc_addr is like pagetable_alloc. This is for callers who only want a + * page table's address, not its ptdesc. + * + * Return: The address associated with the allocated page table, or 0 on + * failure. + */ +unsigned long pgtable_alloc_addr_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order) +{ + struct ptdesc *ptdesc = pagetable_alloc_noprof(gfp | __GFP_ZERO, order); + + if (!ptdesc) + return 0; + return (unsigned long) ptdesc_address(ptdesc); +} + +/** + * pgtable_free_addr - Free pagetables by address + * @addr: The virtual address from pgtable_alloc() + * + * This function is for callers who have the address but no ptdesc. If you + * have the ptdesc, use pagetable_free() instead. + */ +void pgtable_free_addr(const void *addr) +{ + struct ptdesc *ptdesc = virt_to_ptdesc(addr); + + pagetable_free(ptdesc); +} + #if defined(CONFIG_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS) && ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS static struct kmem_cache *page_ptl_cachep; -- 2.52.0