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[80.230.25.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-45ef357635fsm4180544f8f.33.2026.05.29.08.25.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 29 May 2026 08:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 11:25:09 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?utf-8?B?UMOpcmV6?= , Muchun Song , Oscar Salvador , Andrew Morton , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Brendan Jackman , Johannes Weiner , Zi Yan , Baolin Wang , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Hugh Dickins , Matthew Brost , Joshua Hahn , Rakie Kim , Byungchul Park , Gregory Price , Ying Huang , Alistair Popple , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Harry Yoo , Axel Rasmussen , Yuanchu Xie , Wei Xu , Chris Li , Kairui Song , Kemeng Shi , Nhat Pham , Baoquan He , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli Subject: [PATCH v9 33/37] mm: add free_frozen_pages_zeroed Message-ID: <2869cf9cacba23da37dd8b5a8417f8ae30861724.1780067978.git.mst@redhat.com> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0.106.g8ac3dc51b1 X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent Add free_frozen_pages_zeroed(page, order) to free a frozen page while marking it as zeroed, so the next allocation can skip redundant zeroing. An FPI_ZEROED internal flag carries the hint through the free path. PageZeroed is set after __free_pages_prepare() clears all flags, so the hint survives on the free list. __SetPageZeroed is non-atomic but safe here: the page is frozen (refcount 0) and not yet on any free list. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 --- include/linux/gfp.h | 1 + mm/internal.h | 1 - mm/page_alloc.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 73109d4e31a4..d24b61e45861 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ __meminit void *alloc_pages_exact_nid_noprof(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mas extern void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void free_pages_nolock(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order); +void free_frozen_pages_zeroed(struct page *page, unsigned int order); #define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0) #define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr), 0) diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index fd910743ddc3..4af5e72742ba 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -938,7 +938,6 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t, unsigned int order, int nid, #define __alloc_frozen_pages(...) \ alloc_hooks(__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) void free_frozen_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); -void free_frozen_pages_zeroed(struct page *page, unsigned int order); void free_unref_folios(struct folio_batch *fbatch); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 702fa2ced1e1..399e2038dcd9 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ typedef int __bitwise fpi_t; /* Free the page without taking locks. Rely on trylock only. */ #define FPI_TRYLOCK ((__force fpi_t)BIT(2)) +/* + * The page contents are known to be zero (e.g., the host zeroed them + * during balloon deflate). Set PageZeroed after free so the next + * allocation can skip redundant zeroing. + */ +#define FPI_ZEROED ((__force fpi_t)BIT(3)) + /* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock); #define MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_HIGH_FRACTION (8) @@ -1599,8 +1606,19 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order, unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page); struct zone *zone = page_zone(page); - if (__free_pages_prepare(page, order, fpi_flags)) + if (__free_pages_prepare(page, order, fpi_flags)) { + /* + * Only mark as zeroed if the page is actually still zero. + * kernel_poison_pages() overwrites with PAGE_POISON (0xAA) + * when CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is enabled. With init_on_free, + * kernel_init_pages() re-zeroes after poisoning, so the + * page is still zero. + */ + if ((fpi_flags & FPI_ZEROED) && + (!page_poisoning_enabled_static() || want_init_on_free())) + __SetPageZeroed(page); free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, order, fpi_flags); + } } void __meminit __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order, @@ -3021,6 +3039,9 @@ static void __free_frozen_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order, if (!__free_pages_prepare(page, order, fpi_flags)) return; + if (fpi_flags & FPI_ZEROED) + __SetPageZeroed(page); + /* * We only track unmovable, reclaimable and movable on pcp lists. * Place ISOLATE pages on the isolated list because they are being @@ -3059,6 +3080,12 @@ void free_frozen_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order) __free_frozen_pages(page, order, FPI_NONE); } +void free_frozen_pages_zeroed(struct page *page, unsigned int order) +{ + __free_frozen_pages(page, order, FPI_ZEROED); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_frozen_pages_zeroed); + void free_frozen_pages_nolock(struct page *page, unsigned int order) { __free_frozen_pages(page, order, FPI_TRYLOCK); -- MST