Re: [PATCH v4] mm: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type

[Byungchul Park]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 01:49:49PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 02:13:47PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > @@ -1416,9 +1413,15 @@ __always_inline bool __free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
> >               mod_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON, -1);
> >               folio->mapping = NULL;
> >       }
> > -     if (unlikely(page_has_type(page)))
> > +     if (unlikely(page_has_type(page))) {
> > +             /* networking expects to clear its page type before releasing */
> > +             if (unlikely(PageNetpp(page))) {
> 
> You can gate that on is_check_pages_enabled(), to avoid a new branch
> in the !debug case.

It's an unlikely condition so behaves already almost no branch.  Do we
need the additional effort?  No objection but I'm just curious.

I'm adding v5 patch with the request applied in this mail thread anyway.

	Byungchul

> Otherwise, the MM bits look good to me!
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>