From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/14] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 17:09:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3955215-120b-4acd-a27f-825aed0e3bb1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907-remove-pg_private-v3-2-6ae22f9d9272@nvidia.com>
On 9/8/26 04:56, Zi Yan wrote:
> A high-order AUX page sets PG_private on its first page and stores the
> order in first_page->private. Stop using PG_private and check
> first_page->private for AUX page order only in the ring buffer and its
> users. This is fine because page->private is 0 for order-0 AUX pages,
> matching the page order.
>
> It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> To: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> ---
I recall having almost the exact same patch lying around at some point, so LGTM :)
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 2:56 [PATCH v3 00/14] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] mm/zsmalloc: replace PG_private with pointer comparison Zi Yan
2026-09-08 4:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-09-08 15:07 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:21 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:07 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:16 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] fscrypt: stop setting PG_private on bounce page Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:16 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] mm/hugetlb: use direct assignment instead of folio_change_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] f2fs: stop using PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 18:20 ` Tal Zussman
2026-09-09 12:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 17:47 ` Tal Zussman
2026-09-10 7:35 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 12:21 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-10 21:11 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-10 2:41 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-10 7:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 8:43 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-10 9:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 14:15 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] erofs: mm/pagemap: add readahead_folio_last() to avoid folio->private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:04 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:05 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:10 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] erofs: use folio_attach/detach_private() instead of direct assignment Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:19 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 13:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:06 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] mm/page-flags: check page/folio->private instead of PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:08 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] mm/page-flags: introduce folio_test_fs_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:22 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] treewide: remove folio_set/clear_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 17:01 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:22 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] treewide: replace PagePrivate() with page_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:09 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] treewide: adjust comments on PagePrivate and PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:20 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:12 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:31 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:48 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:51 ` Zi Yan
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