[PATCH v2 0/8] mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock

From: Dmitry Ilvokhin

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 12:23:55 EST


This series uses spinlock guard for zone lock across several mm
functions to replace explicit lock/unlock patterns with automatic
scope-based cleanup.

This simplifies the control flow by removing 'flags' variables, goto
labels, and redundant unlock calls.

Patches are ordered by decreasing value. The first six patches simplify
the control flow by removing gotos, multiple unlock paths, or 'ret'
variables. The last two are simpler lock/unlock pair conversions that
only remove 'flags' and can be dropped if considered unnecessary churn.

Based on mm-stable.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

v1 -> v2:

- Andrew Morton raised concerns about binary size increase in v1.
Peter Zijlstra has since fixed the underlying issue in the guards
infrastructure in tip [1]. Note: the fix is not yet in mm-stable, so
it needs to be applied first to reproduce these results. With that
fix, bloat-o-meter on x86 defconfig shows a net decrease of 49 bytes
(-0.12%) for page_alloc.o.
- Rebased on mm-stable, since the patch this series depended on was
dropped from mm-new.
- Converted guard(zone_lock_irqsave)(zone) to
guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&zone->lock).
- Dropped redundant braces in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
(Steven Rostedt)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1772811429.git.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309164516.GE606826@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Dmitry Ilvokhin (8):
mm: use zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock()
mm: use zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate()
mm: use zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
mm: use zone lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate()
mm: use zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy()
mm: use zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy()
mm: use zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk()
mm: use zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages()

mm/page_alloc.c | 53 ++++++++++++-----------------------
mm/page_isolation.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

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