[PATCH v4 03/16] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping

From: Zi Yan

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 22:25:21 EST


gnttab_alloc_pages() stores xen_page_foreign in page->private. On 32-bit, a
pointer to an allocated xen_page_foreign is stored; on 64-bit,
xen_page_foreign is stored inline. Checking page->private != NULL is enough
to tell whether a xen_page_foreign needs to be freed on 32-bit and
page->private is zeroed unconditionally on 64-bit.

It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private.

No functional change intended.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
index 69922be28b54c..993f89f048e21 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
@@ -863,10 +863,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_free_auto_xlat_frames);

int gnttab_pages_set_private(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
{
+#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
int i;

for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
-#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
struct xen_page_foreign *foreign;

foreign = kzalloc_obj(*foreign);
@@ -874,9 +874,9 @@ int gnttab_pages_set_private(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
return -ENOMEM;

set_page_private(pages[i], (unsigned long)foreign);
-#endif
- SetPagePrivate(pages[i]);
}
+#endif
+ /* Data is stored in page->private on 64-bit */

return 0;
}
@@ -1031,12 +1031,11 @@ void gnttab_pages_clear_private(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
int i;

for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
- if (PagePrivate(pages[i])) {
#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
+ if (page_private(pages[i]))
kfree((void *)page_private(pages[i]));
#endif
- ClearPagePrivate(pages[i]);
- }
+ set_page_private(pages[i], 0);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_pages_clear_private);

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