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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 v10 20/37] mm: page_alloc: preserve PG_zeroed in page_del_and_expand Message-ID: 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 2.51.2.2891.g4157995a80.dirty X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent Propagate PG_zeroed through buddy splits in page_del_and_expand() and try_to_claim_block(). When a zeroed high-order page is split to satisfy a smaller allocation, the sub-pages placed back on the free lists keep PG_zeroed. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Gregory Price Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Assisted-by: cursor-agent:GPT-5.4-xhigh --- mm/page_alloc.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index a90bca5317c1..7a6dedd716e2 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1712,7 +1712,8 @@ struct page *__pageblock_pfn_to_page(unsigned long start_pfn, * -- nyc */ static inline unsigned int expand(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int low, - int high, int migratetype, bool reported) + int high, int migratetype, bool reported, + bool zeroed) { unsigned int size = 1 << high; unsigned int nr_added = 0; @@ -1743,6 +1744,8 @@ static inline unsigned int expand(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int low, */ if (reported) __SetPageReported(&page[size]); + if (zeroed) + __SetPageZeroed(&page[size]); } return nr_added; @@ -1754,10 +1757,12 @@ static __always_inline void page_del_and_expand(struct zone *zone, { int nr_pages = 1 << high; bool was_reported = page_reported(page); + bool was_zeroed = PageZeroed(page); __del_page_from_free_list(page, zone, high, migratetype); - nr_pages -= expand(zone, page, low, high, migratetype, was_reported); + nr_pages -= expand(zone, page, low, high, migratetype, was_reported, + was_zeroed); account_freepages(zone, -nr_pages, migratetype); } @@ -2355,11 +2360,12 @@ try_to_claim_block(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, if (current_order >= pageblock_order) { unsigned int nr_added; bool was_reported = page_reported(page); + bool was_zeroed = PageZeroed(page); del_page_from_free_list(page, zone, current_order, block_type); change_pageblock_range(page, current_order, start_type); nr_added = expand(zone, page, order, current_order, start_type, - was_reported); + was_reported, was_zeroed); account_freepages(zone, nr_added, start_type); return page; } -- MST