Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page

From: Dinh Nguyen

Date: Thu Feb 12 2026 - 00:34:57 EST




On 2/11/26 04:31, Mike Rapoport wrote:
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of
ZERO_PAGE() to 4.

Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the
most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions
of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).

Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the
core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement
colored zero page (MIPS and s390).

ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static
inline causes severe pain in header dependencies.

For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy:

* alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot
parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing
and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only
* arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of
ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact.
* m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock,
although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS
will work fine.
* sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it
can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE()
but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to
empty_zero_page.
* sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot.
Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic
empty_zero_page.
* hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page

/* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */

that unfortunately had to go :)

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> # parisc
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> # parisc
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h | 7 -------
arch/nios2/kernel/head.S | 10 ----------
arch/nios2/kernel/nios2_ksyms.c | 1 -

For nios2,

Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>