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David Hildenbrand (Arm) d79db3f396 mm: provide free_reserved_pages(), removing x86 variant
Let's extend free_reserved_page() in page_alloc.c to
free_reserved_pages(), dropping the custom x86 variant.  The common-code
variant will consume an order, so adjust the x86 callers accordingly.

Make free_reserved_pages() assume that we are freeing ordinary high-order
pages, just with the special "reserved" flavor.  The target use case for
now is freeing vmemmap PMD pages.

Set the refcount directly to 0 (instead of 1) and call
__free_frozen_pages().  Set the page count to 0 before clearing
PG_reserved, so someone checking PG_reserved (and not finding it set) to
then try grabbing a ref would not suddenly have that ref be dropped.  That
is arguably cleaner and safer than the old way of doing it.

Add some kerneldoc.  Use a single adjust_managed_page_count() call.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260716-bootmem_info_part2-v2-2-4afc76c73d61@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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