Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: cache struct page for empty_zero_page and return it from ZERO_PAGE()

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 2/9/26 15:40, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For most architectures every invocation of ZERO_PAGE() does
> virt_to_page(empty_zero_page). But empty_zero_page is in BSS and it is
> enough to get its struct page once at initialization time and then use
> it whenever a zero page should be accessed.
> 
> Add yet another __zero_page variable that will be initialized as
> virt_to_page(empty_zero_page) for most architectures in a weak
> arch_setup_zero_pages() function.
> 
> For architectures that use colored zero pages (MIPS and s390) rename their
> setup_zero_pages() to arch_setup_zero_pages() and make it global rather
> than static.
> 
> For architectures that cannot use virt_to_page() for BSS (arm64 and
> sparc64) add override of arch_setup_zero_pages().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David