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arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map

2026-01-27T04:02:18Z

To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone limits. Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map. Some architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init(). With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup code. Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a single place. This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and initialization. Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately after setup_arch(). After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map initialization among different architectures. As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to mm_core_early_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()

2026-01-27T04:02:15Z

Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init() function. Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to call free_area_init() from every architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-13-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t

2025-09-13T23:55:07Z

Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t". At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct folio. This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags' word of all three structures. This gives us a certain amount of type safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID, section number and zone number in the upper bits. That lets us have functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone. There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f instead. That's most of the churn here. Maybe we should be removing these things from the debug output? This patch (of 11): Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef. In upcoming patches, this will provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to functions which take this as an argument. [willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org [nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Zi Yan Cc: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: do not introduce conflicting mappings when flushing tlb entries

2025-04-24T22:19:02Z

The NIOS2 hardware does not support conflicting mappings for the same virtual address (see Nios II Processor Reference Guide from 2023.08.28): "The operating system software is responsible for guaranteeing that multiple TLB entries do not map the same virtual address. The hardware behavior is undefined when multiple entries map the same virtual address." When flushing tlb-entries, the kernel may violate this invariant for virtual addresses related to PID 0 as flushing is currently implemented by assigning physical address, pid and flags to 0. A small example: Before flushing TLB mappings for pid:0x42: dump tlb-entries for line=0xd (addr 000d0000): -- way:09 vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x01145000 pid:0x00 flags:rw--c ... -- way:0d vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x02020000 pid:0x42 flags:rw--c After flushing TLB mappings for pid:0x42: dump tlb-entries for line=0xd (addr 000d0000): -- way:09 vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x01145000 pid:0x00 flags:rw--c ... -- way:0d vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x00000000 pid:0x00 flags:----- As functions such as replace_tlb_one_pid operate on the assumption of unique mappings, this can cause repeated pagefaults for a single address that are not covered by the existing spurious pagefault handling. This commit fixes this issue by keeping the pid field of the entries when flushing. That way, no conflicting mappings are introduced as the pair of is now kept unique: Fixed example after flushing TLB mappings for pid:0x42: dump tlb-entries for line=0xd (addr 000d0000): -- way:09 vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x01145000 pid:0x00 flags:rw--c ... -- way:0d vpn:0x0006d000 phys:0x00000000 pid:0x42 flags:----- When flushing the complete tlb/initialising all entries, the way is used as a substitute mmu pid value for the "invalid" entries. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster Signed-off-by: Andreas Oetken Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen

arch, mm: make releasing of memory to page allocator more explicit

2025-03-18T05:06:53Z

The point where the memory is released from memblock to the buddy allocator is hidden inside arch-specific mem_init()s and the call to memblock_free_all() is needlessly duplicated in every artiste cure and after introduction of arch_mm_preinit() hook, mem_init() implementation on many architecture only contains the call to memblock_free_all(). Pull memblock_free_all() call into mm_core_init() and drop mem_init() on relevant architectures to make it more explicit where the free memory is released from memblock to the buddy allocator and to reduce code duplication in architecture specific code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-14-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Dave Hansen [x86] Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [m68k] Tested-by: Mark Brown Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Guo Ren (csky) Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russel King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: set high_memory in free_area_init()

2025-03-18T05:06:52Z

high_memory defines upper bound on the directly mapped memory. This bound is defined by the beginning of ZONE_HIGHMEM when a system has high memory and by the end of memory otherwise. All this is known to generic memory management initialization code that can set high_memory while initializing core mm structures. Add a generic calculation of high_memory to free_area_init() and remove per-architecture calculation except for the architectures that set and use high_memory earlier than that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-11-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Dave Hansen [x86] Tested-by: Mark Brown Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Guo Ren (csky) Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russel King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: set max_mapnr when allocating memory map for FLATMEM

2025-03-18T05:06:52Z

max_mapnr is essentially the size of the memory map for systems that use FLATMEM. There is no reason to calculate it in each and every architecture when it's anyway calculated in alloc_node_mem_map(). Drop setting of max_mapnr from architecture code and set it once in alloc_node_mem_map(). While on it, move definition of mem_map and max_mapnr to mm/mm_init.c so there won't be two copies for MMU and !MMU variants. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-10-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Dave Hansen [x86] Tested-by: Mark Brown Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Guo Ren (csky) Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russel King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: move pr_debug() about memory start and end to setup_arch()

2025-03-18T05:06:51Z

This will help with pulling out memblock_free_all() to the generic code and reducing code duplication in arch::mem_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-7-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Guo Ren (csky) Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russel King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic __pgd_{alloc,free}

2025-01-26T04:22:24Z

We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as well as pgd_free(). Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level alloc helper as well. Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it. Instead we introduce two new helpers, __pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible. To accommodate as many arch as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order. Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it. Some trivial implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc() is used; remove them. Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate. Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers. In particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and those PGDs may not be page-sized. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove legacy install_special_mapping() code

2024-09-02T03:26:13Z

All relevant architectures had already been converted to the new interface (which just has an underscore in front of the name - not very imaginative naming), this just force-converts the stragglers. The modern interface is almost identical to the old one, except instead of the page pointer it takes a "struct vm_special_mapping" that describes the mapping (and contains the page pointer as one member), and it returns the resulting 'vma' instead of just the error code. Getting rid of the old interface also gets rid of some special casing, which had caused problems with the mremap extensions to "struct vm_special_mapping". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whvR+z=0=0gzgdfUiK70JTa-=+9vxD-4T=3BagXR6dciA@mail.gmail.comTested-by: Rob Landley # arch/sh/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240819195120.GA1113263@thelio-3990X/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Jeff Xu Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton