[PATCH v9 02/14] mm: move page zone helpers from mm.h to mmzone.h

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 09:15:26PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 03:33:12PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > My question is whether page_zonenum() is ready for taking all kinds of tail
> > pages?
> > 
> > Zone device tail pages all look fine, per memmap_init_zone_device().  The
> > question was other kinds of usual compound pages, like either thp or
> > hugetlb.  IIUC page->flags can be uninitialized for those tail pages.
> 
> I don't think that's true.  It's my understanding that page->flags is
> initialised for all pages in memmap at boot / hotplug / delayed-init
> time.  So you can check things like zone, node, etc on literally any
> page.  Contrariwise, those flags are not available in tail pages for
> use by the entity that has allocated a compound page / large folio.

Oh so the zone mask is special.  Fair enough.

> 
> Also, I don't believe zone device pages support compound allocation.
> I think they're always allocated as order-0.

Totally not familiar with zone device pages, but memmap_init_zone_device()
has pfns_per_compound which can be >1.  From there, memmap_init_compound()
does go ahead and setup pages as compound ones.

Thanks!

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Peter Xu