kernel/linux.git/arch/arc/mm, branch master

arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of ZERO_PAGE() to 4. Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page). Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement colored zero page (MIPS and s390). ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static inline causes severe pain in header dependencies. For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy: * alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only * arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact. * m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock, although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS will work fine. * sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE() but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to empty_zero_page. * sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot. Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic empty_zero_page. * hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page /* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */ that unfortunately had to go :) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Tested-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm [alpha] Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen [nios2] Acked-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc] Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

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

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

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

arc: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()

2026-01-27T04:02:13+00:00

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/20260111082105.290734-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Vineet Gupta 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: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t

2025-09-13T23:55:07+00:00

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

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

2025-03-18T05:06:53+00:00

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: introduce arch_mm_preinit

2025-03-18T05:06:53+00:00

Currently, implementation of mem_init() in every architecture consists of one or more of the following: * initializations that must run before page allocator is active, for instance swiotlb_init() * a call to memblock_free_all() to release all the memory to the buddy allocator * initializations that must run after page allocator is ready and there is no arch-specific hook other than mem_init() for that, like for example register_page_bootmem_info() in x86 and sparc64 or simple setting of mem_init_done = 1 in several architectures * a bunch of semi-related stuff that apparently had no better place to live, for example a ton of BUILD_BUG_ON()s in parisc. Introduce arch_mm_preinit() that will be the first thing called from mm_core_init(). On architectures that have initializations that must happen before the page allocator is ready, move those into arch_mm_preinit() along with the code that does not depend on ordering with page allocator setup. On several architectures this results in reduction of mem_init() to a single call to memblock_free_all() that allows its consolidation next. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-13-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: streamline HIGHMEM freeing

2025-03-18T05:06:53+00:00

All architectures that support HIGHMEM have their code that frees high memory pages to the buddy allocator while __free_memory_core() is limited to freeing only low memory. There is no actual reason for that. The memory map is completely ready by the time memblock_free_all() is called and high pages can be released to the buddy allocator along with low memory. Remove low memory limit from __free_memory_core() and drop per-architecture code that frees high memory pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-12-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 high_memory in free_area_init()

2025-03-18T05:06:52+00:00

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

2025-03-18T05:06:52+00:00

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

mm/ioremap: pass pgprot_t to ioremap_prot() instead of unsigned long

2025-03-17T05:06:23+00:00

ioremap_prot() currently accepts pgprot_val parameter as an unsigned long, thus implicitly assuming that pgprot_val and pgprot_t could never be bigger than unsigned long. But this assumption soon will not be true on arm64 when using D128 pgtables. In 128 bit page table configuration, unsigned long is 64 bit, but pgprot_t is 128 bit. Passing platform abstracted pgprot_t argument is better as compared to size based data types. Let's change the parameter to directly pass pgprot_t like another similar helper generic_ioremap_prot(). Without this change in place, D128 configuration does not work on arm64 as the top 64 bits gets silently stripped when passing the protection value to this function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250218101954.415331-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Co-developed-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton