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Re: [PATCH v4 02/16] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker

From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Date: 2026-09-14 02:36:23

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: LLM
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>
[ ... ]
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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