Re: [PATCH v9 7/8] mm: add folio_put_mgen() to deliver migrc's generation number to pcp or buddy
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Apr 17 2024 - 11:56:36 EST
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 04:18:46PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> Introduced a new API, folio_put_mgen(), to deliver migrc's generation
> number to pcp or buddy that will be used by migrc mechanism to track
> need of tlb flush for each page residing in pcp or buddy.
>
> migrc makes decision whether tlb flush is needed or not, based on a
> generation number stored in the interesting page and the global
> generation number, for that tlb flush required has been completed.
>
> For now, the delivery works only for the following call path but not for
> e.g. free_the_page(), __free_pages_ok() and free_unref_page_list() that
> are not for releasing source folios during migration:
>
> folio_put_mgen()
> __folio_put_mgen()
> __folio_put_small()
> free_unref_page()
> free_unref_page_commit()
> free_one_page()
> __free_one_page()
You're going to want to rebase this on mm-unstable. __folio_put_small()
went away in "mm: combine __folio_put_small, __folio_put_large and
__folio_put"