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[PATCH v5 01/12] mm/sparse-vmemmap: factor out shared vmemmap tail page allocation

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From: Muchun Song <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-27 02:55:00
Also in: linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: hugetlb subsystem, memory management, memory management - core, the rest · Maintainers: Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds

Revision v5 of 5 in this series; 2 review trailers (1 from subsystem maintainers).

Revisions (5)
  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 [diff vs current]
  3. v3 [diff vs current]
  4. v4 [diff vs current]
  5. v5 current
HugeTLB and sparse-vmemmap each have their own helper to allocate the
shared vmemmap tail page used by vmemmap optimization.

Factor that logic into a common vmemmap_shared_tail_page() helper. It
allocates the page through vmemmap_alloc_block(), initializes the tail
struct pages, and uses cmpxchg() to install the per-zone shared page.

This removes duplicate allocation logic while handling both early boot
and runtime allocation through the same helper.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
v5:
- Move this patch before CONFIG_VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION is introduced

v4:
- Update the commit message for the renamed VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION config
- Collect Acked-by from Mike Rapoport

v2:
- Collect Acked-by from Qi Zheng
---
 mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 29 +-----------------
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c  | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 mm/sparse.h          |  3 ++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index f977d0a7e002..76765c97ff68 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include "hugetlb_vmemmap.h"
 #include "sparse.h"
-#include "internal.h"
 
 /**
  * struct vmemmap_remap_walk - walk vmemmap page table
@@ -493,32 +492,6 @@ static bool vmemmap_should_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *
 	return true;
 }
 
-static struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
-{
-	const unsigned int idx = order - VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_MIN_ORDER;
-	struct page *tail, *p;
-	int node = zone_to_nid(zone);
-
-	tail = READ_ONCE(zone->vmemmap_tails[idx]);
-	if (likely(tail))
-		return tail;
-
-	tail = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
-	if (!tail)
-		return NULL;
-
-	p = page_to_virt(tail);
-	for (int i = 0; i < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page); i++)
-		init_compound_tail(p + i, NULL, order, zone);
-
-	if (cmpxchg(&zone->vmemmap_tails[idx], NULL, tail)) {
-		__free_page(tail);
-		tail = READ_ONCE(zone->vmemmap_tails[idx]);
-	}
-
-	return tail;
-}
-
 static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 					    struct folio *folio,
 					    struct list_head *vmemmap_pages,
@@ -535,7 +508,7 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 		return ret;
 
 	nid = folio_nid(folio);
-	vmemmap_tail = vmemmap_get_tail(h->order, folio_zone(folio));
+	vmemmap_tail = vmemmap_shared_tail_page(h->order, folio_zone(folio));
 	if (!vmemmap_tail)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index f22d815d7af0..9b00085122b2 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -42,27 +42,13 @@
 #include "mm_init.h"
 #include "sparse.h"
 
-/*
- * Allocate a block of memory to be used to back the virtual memory map
- * or to back the page tables that are used to create the mapping.
- * Uses the main allocators if they are available, else bootmem.
- */
-
-static void * __ref __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(int node,
-				unsigned long size,
-				unsigned long align,
-				unsigned long goal)
-{
-	return memmap_alloc(size, align, goal, node, false);
-}
-
-void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
+void __ref *vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 {
 	/* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */
 	if (slab_is_available()) {
 		gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN;
 		int order = get_order(size);
-		static bool warned __meminitdata;
+		static bool warned;
 		struct page *page;
 
 		page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, order);
@@ -76,8 +62,7 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 		}
 		return NULL;
 	} else
-		return __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(node, size, size,
-				__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
+		return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), node, false);
 }
 
 static void * __meminit altmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size,
@@ -185,34 +170,43 @@ static void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(unsigned long size, int node)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
-static __meminit struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
+struct page __ref *vmemmap_shared_tail_page(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
 {
-	struct page *p, *tail;
-	unsigned int idx;
-	int node = zone_to_nid(zone);
+	void *addr;
+	struct page *page;
+	const unsigned int idx = order - VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_MIN_ORDER;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order < VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_MIN_ORDER))
-		return NULL;
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order > MAX_FOLIO_ORDER))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_NR_ORDERS))
 		return NULL;
 
-	idx = order - VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION_MIN_ORDER;
-	tail = zone->vmemmap_tails[idx];
-	if (tail)
-		return tail;
-	p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
-	if (!p)
+	page = READ_ONCE(zone->vmemmap_tails[idx]);
+	if (likely(page))
+		return page;
+
+	addr = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, zone_to_nid(zone));
+	if (!addr)
 		return NULL;
-	for (int i = 0; i < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page); i++)
-		init_compound_tail(p + i, NULL, order, zone);
 
-	tail = virt_to_page(p);
-	zone->vmemmap_tails[idx] = tail;
+	for (int i = 0; i < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page); i++) {
+		page = (struct page *)addr + i;
+		mm_zero_struct_page(page);
+		init_compound_tail(page, NULL, order, zone);
+	}
 
-	return tail;
+	page = virt_to_page(addr);
+	if (cmpxchg(&zone->vmemmap_tails[idx], NULL, page) != NULL) {
+		if (slab_is_available())
+			__free_page(page);
+		else
+			memblock_free(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+		page = READ_ONCE(zone->vmemmap_tails[idx]);
+	}
+
+	return page;
 }
 #else
-static inline struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
+static inline struct page *vmemmap_shared_tail_page(unsigned int order,
+						    struct zone *zone)
 {
 	return NULL;
 }
@@ -229,7 +223,7 @@ static __meminit void *vmemmap_alloc_pte(unsigned long pfn, int node,
 		return vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PAGE_SIZE, node, altmap);
 
 	zone = pfn_to_zone(pfn, node);
-	page = vmemmap_get_tail(order, zone);
+	page = vmemmap_shared_tail_page(order, zone);
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;
 
diff --git a/mm/sparse.h b/mm/sparse.h
index d3a71ef4fad0..6e7aaeaa5594 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.h
+++ b/mm/sparse.h
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ static inline void sparse_sections_init(void) {}
  * mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
+struct page *vmemmap_shared_tail_page(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone);
+#endif
 void sparse_init_subsection_map(void);
 int section_nr_vmemmap_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		struct vmem_altmap *altmap, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap);
-- 
2.54.0

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