[PATCH v2 13/13] mm: remove __GFP_NO_CODETAG

From: Brendan Jackman

Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 06:03:39 EST


Now that alloc_pages has an entrypoint that allows passing alloc_flags,
we can take advantage of this to start removing GFP flags that are only
used for mm-internal stuff.

This requires also plumbing the alloc_flags into some more of the
allocator code, in particular __alloc_pages[_noprof]() gets an
alloc_flags arg to go along with its callees, and we now need to pass
those flags deeper into the allocator so they can reach the alloc_tag
code.

To try and keep the new ALLOC_NO_CODETAG's scope nice and narrow, don't
define it in mm/internal.h, instead just define a "reserved bit" and
then use that in places that don't care about what it means.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/alloc_tag.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
mm/compaction.c | 4 ++--
mm/internal.h | 8 ++++++--
mm/page_alloc.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
mm/page_frag_cache.c | 4 ++--
5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/alloc_tag.c b/mm/alloc_tag.c
index d9be1cf5187d9..61a6cba32ff35 100644
--- a/mm/alloc_tag.c
+++ b/mm/alloc_tag.c
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>

+#include "internal.h"
+
#define ALLOCINFO_FILE_NAME "allocinfo"
#define MODULE_ALLOC_TAG_VMAP_SIZE (100000UL * sizeof(struct alloc_tag))
#define SECTION_START(NAME) (CODETAG_SECTION_START_PREFIX NAME)
@@ -785,16 +787,15 @@ struct pfn_pool {
sizeof(unsigned long))

/*
- * Skip early PFN recording for a page allocation. Reuses the
- * %__GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT bit. Used by __alloc_tag_add_early_pfn() to avoid
- * recursion when allocating pages for the early PFN tracking list
- * itself.
+ * Skip early PFN recording for a page allocation. Used by
+ * __alloc_tag_add_early_pfn() to avoid recursion when allocating pages for the
+ * early PFN tracking list itself.
*
* Codetags of the pages allocated with __GFP_NO_CODETAG should be
* cleared (via clear_page_tag_ref()) before freeing the pages to prevent
* alloc_tag_sub_check() from triggering a warning.
*/
-#define __GFP_NO_CODETAG __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT
+#define ALLOC_NO_CODETAG __ALLOC_ALLOC_TAG

static struct pfn_pool *current_pfn_pool __initdata;

@@ -806,7 +807,8 @@ static void __init __alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
do {
pool = READ_ONCE(current_pfn_pool);
if (!pool || atomic_read(&pool->count) >= PFN_POOL_SIZE) {
- struct page *new_page = alloc_page(__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NO_CODETAG);
+ struct page *new_page = __alloc_pages(__GFP_HIGH, 0, numa_mem_id(),
+ NULL, ALLOC_NO_CODETAG);
struct pfn_pool *new;

if (!new_page) {
@@ -837,7 +839,7 @@ typedef void alloc_tag_add_func(unsigned long pfn);
static alloc_tag_add_func __rcu *alloc_tag_add_early_pfn_ptr __refdata =
RCU_INITIALIZER(__alloc_tag_add_early_pfn);

-void alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(unsigned long pfn, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+void alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
alloc_tag_add_func *alloc_tag_add;

@@ -845,7 +847,7 @@ void alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(unsigned long pfn, gfp_t gfp_flags)
return;

/* Skip allocations for the tracking list itself to avoid recursion. */
- if (gfp_flags & __GFP_NO_CODETAG)
+ if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_CODETAG)
return;

rcu_read_lock();
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index b776f35ad0200..e90ebd2c54f48 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static inline bool is_via_compact_memory(int order) { return false; }

static struct page *mark_allocated_noprof(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
- post_alloc_hook(page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE);
+ post_alloc_hook(page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
set_page_refcounted(page);
return page;
}
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ static struct folio *compaction_alloc_noprof(struct folio *src, unsigned long da
}
dst = (struct folio *)freepage;

- post_alloc_hook(&dst->page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE);
+ post_alloc_hook(&dst->page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
set_page_refcounted(&dst->page);
if (order)
prep_compound_page(&dst->page, order);
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 0847b55bfc147..a45bedb9ada5f 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct alloc_context {
*/
enum zone_type highest_zoneidx;
bool spread_dirty_pages;
+ /* Only flags that are global to the whole allocation go here. */
+ unsigned int alloc_flags;
};

/*
@@ -907,7 +909,8 @@ static inline void init_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
prep_compound_tail(tail, head, order);
}

-void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags);
+void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
+ unsigned int alloc_flags);
extern bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page, unsigned int order);

extern int user_min_free_kbytes;
@@ -1481,6 +1484,7 @@ unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
#define ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC 0x200 /* Allows access to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC */
#define ALLOC_NOLOCK 0x400 /* Only use spin_trylock in allocation path */
#define ALLOC_KSWAPD 0x800 /* allow waking of kswapd, __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM set */
+#define __ALLOC_ALLOC_TAG 0x1000 /* Reserved bit for use by alloc_tag code */

/* Flags that allow allocations below the min watermark. */
#define ALLOC_RESERVES (ALLOC_NON_BLOCK|ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE|ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC|ALLOC_OOM)
@@ -1956,7 +1960,7 @@ bool may_expand_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, const vma_flags_t *vma_flags,
unsigned long npages);

struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
- nodemask_t *nodemask);
+ nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int alloc_flags);
#define __alloc_pages(...) alloc_hooks(__alloc_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))

#endif /* __MM_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d99e4ea8307ea..d50fd9c77a2e8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ void __clear_page_tag_ref(struct page *page)
/* Should be called only if mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() */
static noinline
void __pgalloc_tag_add(struct page *page, struct task_struct *task,
- unsigned int nr, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+ unsigned int nr, unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
union pgtag_ref_handle handle;
union codetag_ref ref;
@@ -1260,17 +1260,17 @@ void __pgalloc_tag_add(struct page *page, struct task_struct *task,
* page_ext is not available yet, record the pfn so we can
* clear the tag ref later when page_ext is initialized.
*/
- alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(page_to_pfn(page), gfp_flags);
+ alloc_tag_add_early_pfn(page_to_pfn(page), alloc_flags);
if (task->alloc_tag)
alloc_tag_set_inaccurate(task->alloc_tag);
}
}

static inline void pgalloc_tag_add(struct page *page, struct task_struct *task,
- unsigned int nr, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+ unsigned int nr, unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
if (mem_alloc_profiling_enabled())
- __pgalloc_tag_add(page, task, nr, gfp_flags);
+ __pgalloc_tag_add(page, task, nr, alloc_flags);
}

/* Should be called only if mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() */
@@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ static inline bool should_skip_init(gfp_t flags)
}

inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
- gfp_t gfp_flags)
+ gfp_t gfp_flags, unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
const bool zero_tags = gfp_flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS;
bool init = !want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags) &&
@@ -1858,13 +1858,13 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,

set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
page_table_check_alloc(page, order);
- pgalloc_tag_add(page, current, 1 << order, gfp_flags);
+ pgalloc_tag_add(page, current, 1 << order, alloc_flags);
}

static void prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
- post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_flags);
+ post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_flags, alloc_flags);

if (order && (gfp_flags & __GFP_COMP))
prep_compound_page(page, order);
@@ -4773,8 +4773,12 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
* The fast path uses conservative alloc_flags to succeed only until
* kswapd needs to be woken up, and to avoid the cost of setting up
* alloc_flags precisely. So we do that now.
+ *
+ * Can't just or alloc_flags if it contains WMARK bits, but those flags
+ * shouldn't be set in ac->alloc_flags.
*/
- alloc_flags = slowpath_alloc_flags(gfp_mask, order);
+ VM_WARN_ON(ac->alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK);
+ alloc_flags = ac->alloc_flags | slowpath_alloc_flags(gfp_mask, order);

/*
* We need to recalculate the starting point for the zonelist iterator
@@ -4816,7 +4820,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
reserve_flags = __gfp_pfmemalloc_flags(gfp_mask);
if (reserve_flags)
alloc_flags = cma_alloc_flags(gfp_mask, reserve_flags) |
- (alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD);
+ ac->alloc_flags | (alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD);

/*
* Reset the nodemask and zonelist iterators if memory policies can be
@@ -5218,7 +5222,7 @@ unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
return nr_populated;

failed:
- page = __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp, 0, preferred_nid, nodemask);
+ page = __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp, 0, preferred_nid, nodemask, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
if (page)
page_array[nr_populated++] = page;
goto out;
@@ -5326,11 +5330,13 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
{
struct page *page;
gfp_t alloc_gfp; /* The gfp_t that was actually used for allocation */
- struct alloc_context ac = { };
+ struct alloc_context ac = {
+ .alloc_flags = alloc_flags,
+ };
unsigned int fastpath_alloc_flags = alloc_flags;

/* Other flags could be supported later if needed. */
- if (WARN_ON(alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NOLOCK))
+ if (WARN_ON(alloc_flags & ~(ALLOC_NOLOCK | __ALLOC_ALLOC_TAG)))
return NULL;

if (!alloc_order_allowed(gfp, order, alloc_flags))
@@ -5398,12 +5404,12 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof);

struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
- int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask)
+ int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int alloc_flags)
{
struct page *page;

page = __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp, order, preferred_nid, nodemask,
- ALLOC_DEFAULT);
+ alloc_flags);
if (page)
set_page_refcounted(page);
return page;
@@ -5418,14 +5424,14 @@ struct page *alloc_pages_node_noprof(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order
VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
warn_if_node_offline(nid, gfp_mask);

- return __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_mask, order, nid, NULL);
+ return __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_mask, order, nid, NULL, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
}

struct folio *__folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
nodemask_t *nodemask)
{
struct page *page = __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp | __GFP_COMP, order,
- preferred_nid, nodemask);
+ preferred_nid, nodemask, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
return page_rmappable_folio(page);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__folio_alloc_noprof);
@@ -7107,7 +7113,7 @@ static void split_free_frozen_pages(struct list_head *list, gfp_t gfp_mask)
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, &list[order], lru) {
int i;

- post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_mask);
+ post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_mask, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
if (!order)
continue;

@@ -7312,7 +7318,7 @@ int alloc_contig_frozen_range_noprof(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct page *head = pfn_to_page(start);

check_new_pages(head, order);
- prep_new_page(head, order, gfp_mask, 0);
+ prep_new_page(head, order, gfp_mask, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
} else {
ret = -EINVAL;
WARN(true, "PFN range: requested [%lu, %lu), allocated [%lu, %lu)\n",
diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index d2423f30577e4..d9573170e0719 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ static struct page *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) | __GFP_COMP |
__GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
page = __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_ORDER,
- numa_mem_id(), NULL);
+ numa_mem_id(), NULL, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
#endif
if (unlikely(!page)) {
- page = __alloc_pages(gfp, 0, numa_mem_id(), NULL);
+ page = __alloc_pages(gfp, 0, numa_mem_id(), NULL, ALLOC_DEFAULT);
order = 0;
}


--
2.54.0