[merged mm-stable] mm-compaction-stop-recording-free-page-order-in-page-private.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:23:08 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/compaction: stop recording free page order in page->private
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-compaction-stop-recording-free-page-order-in-page-private.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/compaction: stop recording free page order in page->private
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:06:02 -0400
Commit 733aea0b3a7bb ("mm/compaction: add support for >0 order folio
memory compaction.") stores isolated free pages in an array indexed by
free page orders, it is no longer needed to store the order in each page's
->private field. And there is no code using the stored order. Stop doing
that.
It also prepares for an upcoming change that ensures subpage->private is
zero at page free time and the removal of set_page_private(0) from
prep_compound_tail().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-2-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alistair Popple <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/compaction.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-stop-recording-free-page-order-in-page-private
+++ a/mm/compaction.c
@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_b
isolated = __isolate_free_page(page, order);
if (!isolated)
break;
- set_page_private(page, order);
nr_scanned += isolated - 1;
total_isolated += isolated;
@@ -1618,7 +1617,6 @@ static void fast_isolate_freepages(struc
/* Isolate the page if available */
if (page) {
if (__isolate_free_page(page, order)) {
- set_page_private(page, order);
nr_isolated = 1 << order;
nr_scanned += nr_isolated - 1;
total_isolated += nr_isolated;
@@ -1847,7 +1845,6 @@ again:
size >>= 1;
list_add(&freepage[size].lru, &cc->freepages[start_order]);
- set_page_private(&freepage[size], start_order);
}
dst = (struct folio *)freepage;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
mm-huge_memory-use-folios-memcg-inside-__folio_split.patch
xarray-honor-xa_flags_account-in-xas_split_alloc.patch