[PATCH v2 02/29] mm/balloon_compaction: convert balloon_page_delete() to balloon_page_finalize()

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Fri Jul 4 20:24:56 AEST 2025


Let's move the removal of the page from the balloon list into the single
caller, to remove the dependency on the PG_isolated flag and clarify
locking requirements.

Note that for now, balloon_page_delete() was used on two paths:

(1) Removing a page from the balloon for deflation through
    balloon_page_list_dequeue()
(2) Removing an isolated page from the balloon for migration in the
    per-driver migration handlers. Isolated pages were already removed from
    the balloon list during isolation.

So instead of relying on the flag, we can just distinguish both cases
directly and handle it accordingly in the caller.

We'll shuffle the operations a bit such that they logically make more sense
(e.g., remove from the list before clearing flags).

In balloon migration functions we can now move the balloon_page_finalize()
out of the balloon lock and perform the finalization just before dropping
the balloon reference.

Document that the page lock is currently required when modifying the
movability aspects of a page; hopefully we can soon decouple this from the
page lock.

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c |  2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c           |  3 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c      |  4 +--
 include/linux/balloon_compaction.h   | 43 +++++++++++-----------------
 mm/balloon_compaction.c              |  3 +-
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c
index 5f4037c1d7fe8..5e0a718d1be7b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c
@@ -532,7 +532,6 @@ static int cmm_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
 	balloon_page_insert(b_dev_info, newpage);
-	balloon_page_delete(page);
 	b_dev_info->isolated_pages--;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
 
@@ -542,6 +541,7 @@ static int cmm_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
 	 */
 	plpar_page_set_active(page);
 
+	balloon_page_finalize(page);
 	/* balloon page list reference */
 	put_page(page);
 
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
index c817d8c216413..6653fc53c951c 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -1778,8 +1778,7 @@ static int vmballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
 	 * @pages_lock . We keep holding @comm_lock since we will need it in a
 	 * second.
 	 */
-	balloon_page_delete(page);
-
+	balloon_page_finalize(page);
 	put_page(page);
 
 	/* Inflate */
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 89da052f4f687..e299e18346a30 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -866,15 +866,13 @@ static int virtballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info,
 	tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
 
 	/* balloon's page migration 2nd step -- deflate "page" */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&vb_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
-	balloon_page_delete(page);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vb_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
 	vb->num_pfns = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
 	set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns, page);
 	tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
 
+	balloon_page_finalize(page);
 	put_page(page); /* balloon reference */
 
 	return MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
diff --git a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
index 5ca2d56996201..b9f19da37b089 100644
--- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
@@ -97,27 +97,6 @@ static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct balloon_dev_info *balloon,
 	list_add(&page->lru, &balloon->pages);
 }
 
-/*
- * balloon_page_delete - delete a page from balloon's page list and clear
- *			 the page->private assignement accordingly.
- * @page    : page to be released from balloon's page list
- *
- * Caller must ensure the page is locked and the spin_lock protecting balloon
- * pages list is held before deleting a page from the balloon device.
- */
-static inline void balloon_page_delete(struct page *page)
-{
-	__ClearPageOffline(page);
-	__ClearPageMovable(page);
-	set_page_private(page, 0);
-	/*
-	 * No touch page.lru field once @page has been isolated
-	 * because VM is using the field.
-	 */
-	if (!PageIsolated(page))
-		list_del(&page->lru);
-}
-
 /*
  * balloon_page_device - get the b_dev_info descriptor for the balloon device
  *			 that enqueues the given page.
@@ -141,12 +120,6 @@ static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct balloon_dev_info *balloon,
 	list_add(&page->lru, &balloon->pages);
 }
 
-static inline void balloon_page_delete(struct page *page)
-{
-	__ClearPageOffline(page);
-	list_del(&page->lru);
-}
-
 static inline gfp_t balloon_mapping_gfp_mask(void)
 {
 	return GFP_HIGHUSER;
@@ -154,6 +127,22 @@ static inline gfp_t balloon_mapping_gfp_mask(void)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION */
 
+/*
+ * balloon_page_finalize - prepare a balloon page that was removed from the
+ *			   balloon list for release to the page allocator
+ * @page: page to be released to the page allocator
+ *
+ * Caller must ensure that the page is locked.
+ */
+static inline void balloon_page_finalize(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION)) {
+		__ClearPageMovable(page);
+		set_page_private(page, 0);
+	}
+	__ClearPageOffline(page);
+}
+
 /*
  * balloon_page_push - insert a page into a page list.
  * @head : pointer to list
diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
index fcb60233aa35d..ec176bdb8a78b 100644
--- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
+++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ size_t balloon_page_list_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
 		if (!trylock_page(page))
 			continue;
 
-		balloon_page_delete(page);
+		list_del(&page->lru);
+		balloon_page_finalize(page);
 		__count_vm_event(BALLOON_DEFLATE);
 		list_add(&page->lru, pages);
 		unlock_page(page);
-- 
2.49.0



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