mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual type
As long as the owner sets a page type first, we can allow reuse of the lower 16 bit: sufficient to store an offset into a 64 KiB page, which is the maximum base page size in *common* configurations (ignoring the 256 KiB variant). Restrict it to the head page. We'll use that for zsmalloc next, to set a proper type while still reusing that field to store information (offset into a base page) that cannot go elsewhere for now. Let's reserve the lower 16 bit for that purpose and for catching mapcount underflows, and let's reduce PAGE_TYPE_BASE to a single bit. Note that we will still have to overflow the mapcount quite a lot until we would actually indicate a valid page type. Start handing out the type bits from highest to lowest, to make it clearer how many bits for types we have left. Out of 15 bit we can use for types, we currently use 6. If we run out of bits before we have better typing (e.g., memdesc), we can always investigate storing a value instead [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/00ba1dff-7c05-46e8-b0d9-a78ac1cfc198@redhat.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix PG_hugetlb typo, per David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240529111904.2069608-3-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> [zram/zsmalloc workloads] Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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