[PATCH 1/6] mm/page_owner: extract skip_buddy_pages() helper to unify buddy page skipping
From: Ye Liu
Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 02:53:50 EST
Three places in page_owner.c duplicate the same pattern: check if a
page is PageBuddy, read its order via buddy_order_unsafe(), advance
the pfn past the buddy block if the order is valid, and continue.
Consolidate them into a single inline helper skip_buddy_pages().
The function returns true (skip) for any buddy page and advances
@pfn past the block when the order is valid; returns false if the
page is not a buddy page and should be processed normally.
The old init_pages_in_zone() variant used "order > 0" as an extra
guard before advancing pfn, but the continue was unconditional and
(1UL << 0) - 1 == 0, so the behaviour is identical. The comment
about zone->lock is preserved in the helper's kernel-doc.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <ye.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_owner.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index 2dddcb6510aa..342549891a8d 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -422,6 +422,29 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
rcu_read_unlock();
}
+/*
+ * Check if a page is a buddy page and advance @pfn past the entire buddy block.
+ * This safely reads the buddy order without the zone lock, which may cause us
+ * to skip less than the full buddy block, but that is acceptable for page owner
+ * iteration purposes.
+ *
+ * Return: true if the page was skipped (caller should continue its loop),
+ * false if the page is not a buddy page and should be processed normally.
+ */
+static inline bool skip_buddy_pages(unsigned long *pfn, struct page *page)
+{
+ unsigned long order;
+
+ if (!PageBuddy(page))
+ return false;
+
+ order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
+ if (order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+ *pfn += (1UL << order) - 1;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
void pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print(struct seq_file *m,
pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone)
{
@@ -461,14 +484,8 @@ void pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print(struct seq_file *m,
if (page_zone(page) != zone)
continue;
- if (PageBuddy(page)) {
- unsigned long freepage_order;
-
- freepage_order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
- if (freepage_order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
- pfn += (1UL << freepage_order) - 1;
+ if (skip_buddy_pages(&pfn, page))
continue;
- }
if (PageReserved(page))
continue;
@@ -697,13 +714,8 @@ read_page_owner(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
}
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- if (PageBuddy(page)) {
- unsigned long freepage_order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
-
- if (freepage_order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
- pfn += (1UL << freepage_order) - 1;
+ if (skip_buddy_pages(&pfn, page))
continue;
- }
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
if (unlikely(!page_ext))
@@ -798,20 +810,8 @@ static void init_pages_in_zone(struct zone *zone)
if (page_zone(page) != zone)
continue;
- /*
- * To avoid having to grab zone->lock, be a little
- * careful when reading buddy page order. The only
- * danger is that we skip too much and potentially miss
- * some early allocated pages, which is better than
- * heavy lock contention.
- */
- if (PageBuddy(page)) {
- unsigned long order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
-
- if (order > 0 && order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
- pfn += (1UL << order) - 1;
+ if (skip_buddy_pages(&pfn, page))
continue;
- }
if (PageReserved(page))
continue;
--
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