struct ptdesc (including all relevant helpers) support multi order compound pages. But page_ptdesc() coverts given page into its own ptdesc rather than deriving from its compound head as would have been expected otherwise. Just change the macro to fetch the struct ptdesc from the compound head instead, so that the same struct ptdesc is reached from all tail pages. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual --- This applies on v6.18-rc5 Found via code inspection. Apparently struct ptdesc could represent a page table page which is multi order looking into helpers as ptdesc_nr_pages(), __pagetable_ctor/dtor() and pagetable_free() etc. Am I missing something ? include/linux/mm_types.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 90e5790c318f..f7107bc55d1e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -604,9 +604,9 @@ static_assert(sizeof(struct ptdesc) <= sizeof(struct page)); const struct ptdesc *: (const struct folio *)(pt), \ struct ptdesc *: (struct folio *)(pt))) -#define page_ptdesc(p) (_Generic((p), \ - const struct page *: (const struct ptdesc *)(p), \ - struct page *: (struct ptdesc *)(p))) +#define page_ptdesc(p) (_Generic((p), \ + const struct page *: (const struct ptdesc *)_compound_head(p), \ + struct page *: (struct ptdesc *)_compound_head(p))) #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PMD_PAGE_TABLE_SHARING static inline void ptdesc_pmd_pts_init(struct ptdesc *ptdesc) -- 2.30.2