[RFC PATCH 01/11] mm: Introduce struct folio

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Date: Tue Dec 08 2020 - 15:23:54 EST


We have trouble keeping track of whether we've already called
compound_head() to ensure we're not operating on a tail page. Further,
it's never clear whether we intend a struct page to refer to PAGE_SIZE
bytes or page_size(compound_head(page)).

Introduce a new type 'struct folio' that always refers to an entire
(possibly compound) page, and points to the head page (or base page).

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++
include/linux/mm_types.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d1f64744ace2..7db9a10f084b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -916,6 +916,11 @@ static inline unsigned int compound_order(struct page *page)
return page[1].compound_order;
}

+static inline unsigned int folio_order(struct folio *folio)
+{
+ return compound_order(&folio->page);
+}
+
static inline bool hpage_pincount_available(struct page *page)
{
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 65df8abd90bd..d7e487d9998f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -223,6 +223,23 @@ struct page {
#endif
} _struct_page_alignment;

+/*
+ * A struct folio is either a base (order-0) page or the head page of
+ * a compound page.
+ */
+struct folio {
+ struct page page;
+};
+
+static inline struct folio *page_folio(struct page *page)
+{
+ unsigned long head = READ_ONCE(page->compound_head);
+
+ if (unlikely(head & 1))
+ return (struct folio *)(head - 1);
+ return (struct folio *)page;
+}
+
static inline atomic_t *compound_mapcount_ptr(struct page *page)
{
return &page[1].compound_mapcount;
--
2.29.2