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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] mm/page_alloc: introduce __GFP_PTE_MAPPED flag to
 allocate pte-mapped pages
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To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <20210823132513.15836-1-rppt@kernel.org>
 <20210823132513.15836-4-rppt@kernel.org>
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On 8/23/21 15:25, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> @@ -3283,5 +3283,7 @@ static inline int seal_check_future_write(int seals, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +void pte_mapped_cache_init(void);
> +
>  #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>  #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
> index 973fd731a520..4faf8c542b00 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ enum pageblock_bits {
>  			/* 3 bits required for migrate types */
>  	PB_migrate_skip,/* If set the block is skipped by compaction */
>  
> +	PB_pte_mapped, /* If set the block is mapped with PTEs in direct map */
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Assume the bits will always align on a word. If this assumption
>  	 * changes then get/set pageblock needs updating.

You have broken this assumption :)
> @@ -536,7 +558,7 @@ void set_pfnblock_flags_mask(struct page *page, unsigned long flags,
>  	unsigned long bitidx, word_bitidx;
>  	unsigned long old_word, word;
>  
> -	BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS != 4);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS != 5);

This is not sufficient to satisfy the "needs updating" part. We would now need
NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS == 8.