Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual type

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diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index d1bdbaaccc964..f060db808102c 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -945,15 +945,19 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(HasHWPoisoned, has_hwpoisoned)
   * mistaken for a page type value.
   */
-#define PAGE_TYPE_BASE 0xf0000000
-/* Reserve		0x0000007f to catch underflows of _mapcount */
-#define PAGE_MAPCOUNT_RESERVE	-128
-#define PG_buddy	0x00000080
-#define PG_offline	0x00000100
-#define PG_table	0x00000200
-#define PG_guard	0x00000400
-#define PG_hugetlb	0x00000800
-#define PG_slab		0x00001000
+#define PAGE_TYPE_BASE	0x80000000
+/*
+ * Reserve 0xffff0000 - 0xfffffffe to catch _mapcount underflows and
+ * allow owners that set a type to reuse the lower 16 bit for their own
+ * purposes.
+ */
+#define PG_buddy	0x40000000
+#define PG_offline	0x20000000
+#define PG_table	0x10000000
+#define PG_guard	0x08000000
+#define PG_hugetlb	0x04008000

As Wang Wei points out, the 0 and 8 look too similar on my screen ;)

This should be

#define PG_hugetlb	0x04000000

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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