Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: add largest_zero_folio() routine

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On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add largest_zero_folio() routine so that huge_zero_folio can be
> used directly when CONFIG_STATIC_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO is enabled. This will
> return ZERO_PAGE folio if CONFIG_STATIC_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO is disabled or
> if we failed to allocate a huge_zero_folio.
>
> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks good to me minus nit + comment below, so:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/huge_mm.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> index 78ebceb61d0e..c44a6736704b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> @@ -716,4 +716,21 @@ static inline int split_folio_to_order(struct folio *folio, int new_order)
>  	return split_folio_to_list_to_order(folio, NULL, new_order);
>  }
>
> +/*

Maybe let's make this a kernel doc comment?

> + * largest_zero_folio - Get the largest zero size folio available
> + *
> + * This function will return huge_zero_folio if CONFIG_STATIC_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO
> + * is enabled. Otherwise, a ZERO_PAGE folio is returned.
> + *
> + * Deduce the size of the folio with folio_size instead of assuming the
> + * folio size.
> + */
> +static inline struct folio *largest_zero_folio(void)
> +{
> +	struct folio *folio = get_static_huge_zero_folio();
> +
> +	if (folio)
> +		return folio;
> +	return page_folio(ZERO_PAGE(0));

Feels like we should have this in a wrapper function somewhere. Then again it
seems people generally always open-code 'ZERO_PAGE(0)' anyway so maybe this is
sort of the 'way things are done'? :P

> +}
>  #endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */
> --
> 2.49.0
>




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