Re: [PATCH] mm: folio_zero_user: open code range computation in folio_zero_user()

From: Ankur Arora

Date: Tue Jan 27 2026 - 18:43:53 EST



David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 1/26/26 19:32, Ankur Arora wrote:
>> riscv64-gcc-linux-gnu (v8.5) reports a compile time assert in:
>> r[2] = DEFINE_RANGE(clamp_t(s64, fault_idx - radius, pg.start, pg.end),
>> clamp_t(s64, fault_idx + radius, pg.start, pg.end));
>> where it decides that pg.start > pg.end in:
>> clamp_t(s64, fault_idx + radius, pg.start, pg.end));
>> where pg comes from:
>> const struct range pg = DEFINE_RANGE(0, folio_nr_pages(folio) - 1);
>> That does not seem like it could be true. Even for pg.start == pg.end,
>> we would need folio_test_large() to evaluate to false at compile time:
>> static inline unsigned long folio_nr_pages(const struct folio *folio)
>> {
>> if (!folio_test_large(folio))
>> return 1;
>> return folio_large_nr_pages(folio);
>> }
>> Workaround by open coding the range computation. Also, simplify the type
>> declarations for the relevant variables.
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601240453.QCjgGdJa-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
>> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Hi Andrew
>> I'm not certain about linux-next rebasing protocol, but I'm guessing
>> this patch will be squashed in patch-8 ("mm: folio_zero_user: cache
>> neighbouring pages").
>> The commit message doesn't contain anything needing preserving if it is.
>> Thanks
>> Ankur
>> mm/memory.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
>> index ce933ee4a3dd..e49340f51fa9 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory.c
>> @@ -7282,30 +7282,29 @@ static void clear_contig_highpages(struct page *page, unsigned long addr,
>> void folio_zero_user(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr_hint)
>> {
>> const unsigned long base_addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr_hint, folio_size(folio));
>> - const long fault_idx = (addr_hint - base_addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
>> const struct range pg = DEFINE_RANGE(0, folio_nr_pages(folio) - 1);
>> - const int radius = FOLIO_ZERO_LOCALITY_RADIUS;
>> + const long fault_idx = (addr_hint - base_addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
>> + const long radius = FOLIO_ZERO_LOCALITY_RADIUS;
>> struct range r[3];
>> int i;
>> /*
>> - * Faulting page and its immediate neighbourhood. Will be cleared at the
>> - * end to keep its cachelines hot.
>> + * Faulting page and its immediate neighbourhood. Cleared at the end to
>> + * keep its cachelines hot.
>> */
>
> Why are there rather unrelated changes in this patch? Like this comment change,
> or the movement of "fualt_idx" declaration above?

Yeah, that was a mistake.

--
ankur