From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

Sent: 17 April 2021 00:07

The net page_pool wants to use a magic value to identify page pool pages.
The best place to put it is in the first word where it can be clearly a
non-pointer value.  That means shifting dma_addr up to alias with ->index,
which means we need to find another way to indicate page_is_pfmemalloc().
Since page_pool doesn't want to set its magic value on pages which are
pfmemalloc, we can use bit 1 of compound_head to indicate that the page
came from the memory reserves.

...

 		struct {	/* page_pool used by netstack */
-			/**
-			 * @dma_addr: might require a 64-bit value on
-			 * 32-bit architectures.
-			 */
+			unsigned long pp_magic;
+			unsigned long xmi;
+			unsigned long _pp_mapping_pad;
 			unsigned long dma_addr[2];
 		};

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I also think there should be a comment that dma_addr[0]
must be aliased to ->index.
(Or whatever all the exact requirements are.)

	David

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