[PATCH 03/17] mm/sparse-vmemmap: introduce folio-oriented vmemmap optimization macros

From: Muchun Song

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 06:59:22 EST


Introduce macros for those folio-oriented properties and use them to
replace the tail-based names in the HVO paths. This makes the code read
in terms of folio semantics instead of an implementation detail and
better matches other folio-based users such as DAX.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 18 ++++++++++--------
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 2 +-
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index bacd89572c5c..ea884245f499 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -107,13 +107,15 @@
is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)) ? \
MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES * sizeof(struct page) : 0)

-/*
- * vmemmap optimization (like HVO) is only possible for page orders that fill
- * two or more pages with struct pages.
- */
-#define VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER (ilog2(2 * PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page)))
-#define __NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS (MAX_FOLIO_ORDER - VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER + 1)
-#define NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS (__NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS > 0 ? __NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS : 0)
+/* The number of vmemmap pages required by a vmemmap-optimized folio. */
+#define OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_PAGES 1
+#define OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_SIZE (OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE)
+#define OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_NR_STRUCT_PAGES (OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_SIZE / sizeof(struct page))
+#define OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER (ilog2(OPTIMIZED_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_NR_STRUCT_PAGES) + 1)
+
+#define __NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS (MAX_FOLIO_ORDER - OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER + 1)
+#define NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS \
+ (__NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS > 0 ? __NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS : 0)

enum migratetype {
MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,
@@ -1147,7 +1149,7 @@ struct zone {
atomic_long_t vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
atomic_long_t vm_numa_event[NR_VM_NUMA_EVENT_ITEMS];
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
- struct page *vmemmap_tails[NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS];
+ struct page *vmemmap_tails[NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS];
#endif
} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index e1bb81631d5e..1ef6edaa3993 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3301,7 +3301,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init(void)
struct zone *zone;

for_each_zone(zone) {
- for (int i = 0; i < NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS; i++) {
+ for (int i = 0; i < NR_OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_ORDERS; i++) {
struct page *tail, *p;
unsigned int order;

@@ -3309,7 +3309,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init(void)
if (!tail)
continue;

- order = i + VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER;
+ order = i + OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER;
p = page_to_virt(tail);
/*
* prep_and_add_bootmem_folios() can access pageblock
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index eefd6b5f9706..196312a6fafb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static bool vmemmap_should_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *

static struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
{
- const unsigned int idx = order - VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER;
+ const unsigned int idx = order - OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER;
struct page *tail, *p;
int node = zone_to_nid(zone);

diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 785d2b042fe3..1d72283e179b 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -327,12 +327,12 @@ static __meminit struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *
unsigned int idx;
int node = zone_to_nid(zone);

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order < VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order < OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER))
return NULL;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order > MAX_FOLIO_ORDER))
return NULL;

- idx = order - VMEMMAP_TAIL_MIN_ORDER;
+ idx = order - OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER;
tail = zone->vmemmap_tails[idx];
if (tail)
return tail;
--
2.54.0