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Patch series "remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()", v2. As suggested by Peter Zijlstra below [1], this series aims to remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc(). : Fundamentally tlb_remove_page() is about removing *pages* as from a PTE, : there should not be a page-table anywhere near here *ever*. : : Yes, some architectures use tlb_remove_page() for page-tables too, but : that is more or less an implementation detail that can be fixed. After this series, all architectures use tlb_remove_table() or tlb_remove_ptdesc() to remove the page table pages. In the future, once all architectures using tlb_remove_table() have also converted to using struct ptdesc (eg. powerpc), it may be possible to use only tlb_remove_ptdesc(). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103111457.GC22934@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ This patch (of 6): Now only arm will call tlb_remove_ptdesc()/tlb_remove_table() when CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE is disabled. In this case, the type of the table parameter is actually struct ptdesc * instead of struct page *. Since struct ptdesc still overlaps with struct page and has not been separated from it, forcing the table parameter to struct page * will not cause any problems at this time. But this is definitely incorrect and needs to be fixed. So just like the generic __tlb_remove_table(), let generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc by default when CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE is disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1740454179.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5be8c3ab7bd68510bf0db4cf84010f4dfe372917.1740454179.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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