mirror of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
synced 2026-09-22 09:34:56 +02:00
Dave Hansen
412d000346
There are a billion ways to refer to a physical memory address. One of the x86 PMD freeing code location chooses to use a 'pte_t *' to point to a PMD page and then call a PTE-specific freeing function for it. That's a bit wonky. Just use a 'struct ptdesc *' instead. Its entire purpose is to refer to page table pages. It also means being able to remove an explicit cast. Right now, pte_free_kernel() is a one-liner that calls pagetable_dtor_free(). Effectively, all this patch does is remove one superfluous __pa(__va(paddr)) conversion and then call pagetable_dtor_free() directly instead of through a helper. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-5-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com> Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.