[PATCH 0/5] remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()

Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hexagon,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.mips,gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel,gmane.linux.uml.devel,gmane.linux.ports.riscv
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

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().

Note: there will be some overlap between my patch #4 and Rik van Riel's patch #1 [2],
      once his patch is merged into the next branch, I can rebase onto his patch.
      And patch #4 can actually make x86 use tlb_remove_ptdesc(), but due to the
      above situation, I have not done so yet.

This series is based on next-20250122.

Comments and suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,
Qi

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Qi Zheng (5):
  mm: pgtable: make generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc
  mm: pgtable: convert some architectures to use tlb_remove_ptdesc()
  riscv: pgtable: unconditionally use tlb_remove_ptdesc()
  x86: pgtable: unconditionally use tlb_remove_table()
  mm: pgtable: remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()

 arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h      |  3 +--
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/pgalloc.h   |  3 +--
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgalloc.h |  3 +--
 arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgalloc.h |  3 +--
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h      |  3 +--
 arch/nios2/include/asm/pgalloc.h     |  9 ++++-----
 arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h  |  3 +--
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h     | 26 ++++----------------------
 arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |  3 +--
 arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |  9 +++------
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c           | 17 +----------------
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                | 11 -----------
 include/asm-generic/tlb.h            | 12 +++---------
 13 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

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