Dave Hansen 412d000346 x86/mm: use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages
There are a billion ways to refer to a physical memory address.  One of
the x86 PMD freeing code location chooses to use a 'pte_t *' to point to a
PMD page and then call a PTE-specific freeing function for it.  That's a
bit wonky.

Just use a 'struct ptdesc *' instead.  Its entire purpose is to refer to
page table pages.  It also means being able to remove an explicit cast.

Right now, pte_free_kernel() is a one-liner that calls
pagetable_dtor_free().  Effectively, all this patch does is remove one
superfluous __pa(__va(paddr)) conversion and then call
pagetable_dtor_free() directly instead of through a helper.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-5-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>
Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
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