mm/page_ext: do not allocate space for page_ext->flags if not needed
There is 8 byte page_ext->flags field allocated per page whenever
CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION is enabled. However, not every user of page_ext
uses flags. Therefore, check whether flags is needed at least by one user
and if so allocate space for it.
For example when page_table_check is enabled, on a machine with 128G
of memory before the fix:
[ 2.244288] allocated
536870912 bytes of page_ext
after the fix:
[ 2.160154] allocated
268435456 bytes of page_ext
Also, add a kernel-doc comment before page_ext_operations that describes
the fields, and remove check if need() is set, as that is now a required
field.
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[email protected]: address comments from Mike Rapoport]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Zhe <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>