Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2025-10-29

Re: [RFC mm v4 2/2] mm: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type

From: Mina Almasry <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-28 01:28:41
Also in: bpf, linux-mm, linux-rdma, lkml

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM Byungchul Park [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
->pp_magic field in struct page is current used to identify if a page
belongs to a page pool.  However, ->pp_magic will be removed and page
type bit in struct page e.i. PGTY_netpp can be used for that purpose.

Introduce and use the page type APIs e.g. PageNetpp(), __SetPageNetpp(),
and __ClearPageNetpp() instead, and remove the existing APIs accessing
->pp_magic e.g. page_pool_page_is_pp(), netmem_or_pp_magic(), and
netmem_clear_pp_magic().

This work was inspired by the following link:

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/582f41c0-2742-4400-9c81-0d46bf4e8314@gmail.com/ (local)

While at it, move the sanity check for page pool to on free.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
---
Hi Mina,

I dropped your Reviewed-by tag since there are updates on some comments
in network part.  Can I still keep your Reviewed-by?

        Byungchul
---
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c  |  2 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                            | 27 +++----------------
 include/linux/page-flags.h                    |  6 +++++
 include/net/netmem.h                          |  2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c                               |  8 +++---
 net/core/netmem_priv.h                        | 17 +++---------
 net/core/page_pool.c                          | 14 +++++-----
 7 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c
index 5d51600935a6..def274f5c1ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ static void mlx5e_free_xdpsq_desc(struct mlx5e_xdpsq *sq,
                                xdpi = mlx5e_xdpi_fifo_pop(xdpi_fifo);
                                page = xdpi.page.page;

-                               /* No need to check page_pool_page_is_pp() as we
+                               /* No need to check PageNetpp() as we
                                 * know this is a page_pool page.
                                 */
                                page_pool_recycle_direct(pp_page_to_nmdesc(page)->pp,
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index b6fdf3557807..f5155f1c75f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -4361,10 +4361,9 @@ int arch_lock_shadow_stack_status(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long status);
  * DMA mapping IDs for page_pool
  *
  * When DMA-mapping a page, page_pool allocates an ID (from an xarray) and
- * stashes it in the upper bits of page->pp_magic. We always want to be able to
- * unambiguously identify page pool pages (using page_pool_page_is_pp()). Non-PP
- * pages can have arbitrary kernel pointers stored in the same field as pp_magic
- * (since it overlaps with page->lru.next), so we must ensure that we cannot
+ * stashes it in the upper bits of page->pp_magic. Non-PP pages can have
+ * arbitrary kernel pointers stored in the same field as pp_magic (since
+ * it overlaps with page->lru.next), so we must ensure that we cannot
  * mistake a valid kernel pointer with any of the values we write into this
  * field.
  *
@@ -4399,26 +4398,6 @@ int arch_lock_shadow_stack_status(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long status);
 #define PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK GENMASK(PP_DMA_INDEX_BITS + PP_DMA_INDEX_SHIFT - 1, \
                                  PP_DMA_INDEX_SHIFT)

-/* Mask used for checking in page_pool_page_is_pp() below. page->pp_magic is
- * OR'ed with PP_SIGNATURE after the allocation in order to preserve bit 0 for
- * the head page of compound page and bit 1 for pfmemalloc page, as well as the
- * bits used for the DMA index. page_is_pfmemalloc() is checked in
- * __page_pool_put_page() to avoid recycling the pfmemalloc page.
- */
-#define PP_MAGIC_MASK ~(PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK | 0x3UL)
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POOL
-static inline bool page_pool_page_is_pp(const struct page *page)
-{
-       return (page->pp_magic & PP_MAGIC_MASK) == PP_SIGNATURE;
-}
-#else
-static inline bool page_pool_page_is_pp(const struct page *page)
-{
-       return false;
-}
-#endif
-
 #define PAGE_SNAPSHOT_FAITHFUL (1 << 0)
 #define PAGE_SNAPSHOT_PG_BUDDY (1 << 1)
 #define PAGE_SNAPSHOT_PG_IDLE  (1 << 2)
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 0091ad1986bf..edf5418c91dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -934,6 +934,7 @@ enum pagetype {
        PGTY_zsmalloc           = 0xf6,
        PGTY_unaccepted         = 0xf7,
        PGTY_large_kmalloc      = 0xf8,
+       PGTY_netpp              = 0xf9,

        PGTY_mapcount_underflow = 0xff
 };
@@ -1078,6 +1079,11 @@ PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Zsmalloc, zsmalloc, zsmalloc)
 PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Unaccepted, unaccepted, unaccepted)
 FOLIO_TYPE_OPS(large_kmalloc, large_kmalloc)

+/*
+ * Marks page_pool allocated pages.
+ */
+PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Netpp, netpp, netpp)
+
 /**
  * PageHuge - Determine if the page belongs to hugetlbfs
  * @page: The page to test.
diff --git a/include/net/netmem.h b/include/net/netmem.h
index 651e2c62d1dd..0ec4c7561081 100644
--- a/include/net/netmem.h
+++ b/include/net/netmem.h
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static inline unsigned long netmem_pfn_trace(netmem_ref netmem)
  */
 #define pp_page_to_nmdesc(p)                                           \
 ({                                                                     \
-       DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!page_pool_page_is_pp(p));               \
+       DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageNetpp(p));                          \
        __pp_page_to_nmdesc(p);                                         \
 })
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fb91c566327c..c69ed3741bbc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,6 @@ static inline bool page_expected_state(struct page *page,
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
                        page->memcg_data |
 #endif
-                       page_pool_page_is_pp(page) |
Shouldn't you replace the page_pool_page_is_pp check with a PageNetpp
check in this call site and below? Or is that no longer necessary for
some reason?
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