[PATCH v6 1/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use page table apis

From: Vishal Moola (Oracle)

Date: Wed Feb 18 2026 - 21:04:32 EST


We need all allocation and free sites to use the ptdesc APIs in order to
allocate them separately from regular pages. Convert the pte
allocation/free sites to use the generic page table apis, since those
use ptdescs already.

Pass through init_mm since these are kernel page tables,
pte_alloc_one_kernel() effectively becomes a no-op otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 6c6eb486f7a6..d52010fd3023 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ static bool try_to_free_pte_page(pte_t *pte)
if (!pte_none(pte[i]))
return false;

- free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+ pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
return true;
}

@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ static void unmap_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)

static int alloc_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
{
- pte_t *pte = (pte_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ pte_t *pte = pte_alloc_one_kernel(&init_mm);
if (!pte)
return -1;

--
2.53.0