Re: [PATCH v2] mm, page_pool: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type
From: Byungchul Park
Date: Mon Jul 28 2025 - 20:54:22 EST
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:39:52AM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/28/25 06:27, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > Changes from v1:
> > > 1. Rebase on linux-next.
> >
> > net-next is closed, looks like until August 11.
> >
> > > 2. Initialize net_iov->pp = NULL when allocating net_iov in
> > > net_devmem_bind_dmabuf() and io_zcrx_create_area().
> > > 3. Use ->pp for net_iov to identify if it's pp rather than
> > > always consider net_iov as pp.
> > > 4. Add Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> > Oops, looks you killed my suggested-by tag now. Since it's still
> > pretty much my diff spliced with David's suggestions, maybe
> > Co-developed-by sounds more appropriate. Even more so goes for
> > the second patch getting rid of __netmem_clear_lsb().
> >
> > Looks fine, just one comment below.
> >
> > ...> diff --git a/io_uring/zcrx.c b/io_uring/zcrx.c
> > > index 100b75ab1e64..34634552cf74 100644
> > > --- a/io_uring/zcrx.c
> > > +++ b/io_uring/zcrx.c
> > > @@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ static int io_zcrx_create_area(struct io_zcrx_ifq *ifq,
> > > area->freelist[i] = i;
> > > atomic_set(&area->user_refs[i], 0);
> > > niov->type = NET_IOV_IOURING;
> > > + niov->pp = NULL;
> >
> > It's zero initialised, you don't need it.
> >
>
> This may be my bad since I said we should check if it's 0 initialized.
I thought you wanted to explicitly initialize it in the user sides, but
seems not. Okay, I won't include the explicit initialization from the
next.
Byungchul
> It looks like on the devmem side as well we kvmalloc_array the niovs,
> and if I'm checking through the helpers right, kvmalloc_array does
> 0-initialize indeed.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Mina