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[2003:d8:2f40:b300:53f7:d260:aff4:7256]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-3a892e5f92esm10485904f8f.90.2025.06.30.06.01.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:01:37 -0700 (PDT) From: David Hildenbrand To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Jerrin Shaji George , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , =?UTF-8?q?Eugenio=20P=C3=A9rez?= , Alexander Viro , Christian Brauner , Jan Kara , Zi Yan , Matthew Brost , Joshua Hahn , Rakie Kim , Byungchul Park , Gregory Price , Ying Huang , Alistair Popple , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Minchan Kim , Sergey Senozhatsky , Brendan Jackman , Johannes Weiner , Jason Gunthorpe , John Hubbard , Peter Xu , Xu Xin , Chengming Zhou , Miaohe Lin , Naoya Horiguchi , Oscar Salvador , Rik van Riel , Harry Yoo , Qi Zheng , Shakeel Butt Subject: [PATCH v1 28/29] mm/balloon_compaction: "movable_ops" doc updates Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:00:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20250630130011.330477-29-david@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0 In-Reply-To: <20250630130011.330477-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20250630130011.330477-1-david@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Let's bring the docs up-to-date. Setting PG_movable_ops + page->private very likely still requires to be performed under documented locks: it's complicated. We will rework this in the future, as we will try avoiding using the page lock. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes --- include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h b/include/linux/balloon_com= paction.h index b222b0737c466..2fecfead91d26 100644 --- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h +++ b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h @@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ * * Common interface definitions for making balloon pages movable by compac= tion. * - * Balloon page migration makes use of the general non-lru movable page + * Balloon page migration makes use of the general "movable_ops page migra= tion" * feature. * * page->private is used to reference the responsible balloon device. - * page->mapping is used in context of non-lru page migration to reference - * the address space operations for page isolation/migration/compaction. + * That these pages have movable_ops, and which movable_ops apply, + * is derived from the page type (PageOffline()) combined with the + * PG_movable_ops flag (PageMovableOps()). * * As the page isolation scanning step a compaction thread does is a lockl= ess * procedure (from a page standpoint), it might bring some racy situations= while @@ -17,12 +18,10 @@ * and safely perform balloon's page compaction and migration we must, alw= ays, * ensure following these simple rules: * - * i. when updating a balloon's page ->mapping element, strictly do it u= nder - * the following lock order, independently of the far superior - * locking scheme (lru_lock, balloon_lock): + * i. Setting the PG_movable_ops flag and page->private with the followi= ng + * lock order * +-page_lock(page); * +--spin_lock_irq(&b_dev_info->pages_lock); - * ... page->mapping updates here ... * * ii. isolation or dequeueing procedure must remove the page from balloon * device page list under b_dev_info->pages_lock. --=20 2.49.0