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Alistair Popple 82ba975e4c mm: allow compound zone device pages
Zone device pages are used to represent various type of device memory
managed by device drivers.  Currently compound zone device pages are not
supported.  This is because MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX pages are the only user
of higher order zone device pages and have their own page reference
counting.

A future change will unify FS DAX reference counting with normal page
reference counting rules and remove the special FS DAX reference counting.
Supporting that requires compound zone device pages.

Supporting compound zone device pages requires compound_head() to
distinguish between head and tail pages whilst still preserving the
special struct page fields that are specific to zone device pages.

A tail page is distinguished by having bit zero being set in
page->compound_head, with the remaining bits pointing to the head page. 
For zone device pages page->compound_head is shared with page->pgmap.

The page->pgmap field must be common to all pages within a folio, even if
the folio spans memory sections.  Therefore pgmap is the same for both
head and tail pages and can be moved into the folio and we can use the
standard scheme to find compound_head from a tail page.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/67055d772e6102accf85161d0b57b0b3944292bf.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17 22:06:39 -07:00
arch Revert "x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode" 2025-03-17 00:05:35 -07:00
block block-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:12:33 -10:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation mm: zsmalloc: remove object mapping APIs and per-CPU map areas 2025-03-17 00:05:41 -07:00
drivers mm: allow compound zone device pages 2025-03-17 22:06:39 -07:00
fs fs/dax: remove PAGE_MAPPING_DAX_SHARED mapping flag 2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
include mm: allow compound zone device pages 2025-03-17 22:06:39 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:09:33 -10:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel configs: drop GENERIC_PTDUMP from debug.config 2025-03-17 00:05:30 -07:00
lib mm: allow compound zone device pages 2025-03-17 22:06:39 -07:00
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mm mm: allow compound zone device pages 2025-03-17 22:06:39 -07:00
net percpu: use TYPEOF_UNQUAL() in variable declarations 2025-03-16 22:05:53 -07:00
rust Driver core api addition for 6.14-rc3 2025-02-16 12:54:42 -08:00
samples samples/damon: a typo in the kconfig - sameple 2025-03-17 00:05:29 -07:00
scripts kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix build when specifying KBUILD_OUTPUT 2025-03-06 20:32:30 +09:00
security Landlock fix for v6.14-rc5 2025-02-26 11:55:44 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for ASUS Zenbook UM3406KA Laptops using CS35L41 HDA 2025-03-05 19:52:56 +01:00
tools tools/selftests: add guard region test for /proc/$pid/pagemap 2025-03-16 22:06:41 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vm 2025-02-04 11:27:45 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap 33 hotfixes. 24 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13 issues 2025-03-08 14:34:06 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mm: zbud: remove zbud 2025-03-16 22:06:01 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add Baolin as shmem reviewer 2025-03-17 00:05:42 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.14-rc6 2025-03-09 13:45:25 -10:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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