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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* struct page extension
*
* This is the feature to manage memory for extended data per page.
*
* Until now, we must modify struct page itself to store extra data per page.
* This requires rebuilding the kernel and it is really time consuming process.
* And, sometimes, rebuild is impossible due to third party module dependency.
* At last, enlarging struct page could cause un-wanted system behaviour change.
*
* This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This feature
* allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place rather than
* the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the accessor
* functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it checks whether
* allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If not, it avoids
* allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can include this feature
* into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and solve related problems.
*
* To help these things to work well, there are two callbacks for clients. One
* is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to avoid useless
* memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init callback, which
* is used to do proper initialization after memory is allocated.
*
* The need callback is used to decide whether extended memory allocation is
* needed or not. Sometimes users want to deactivate some features in this
* boot and extra memory would be unneccessary. In this case, to avoid
* allocating huge chunk of memory, each clients represent their need of
* extra memory through the need callback. If one of the need callbacks
* returns true, it means that someone needs extra memory so that
* page extension core should allocates memory for page extension. If
* none of need callbacks return true, memory isn't needed at all in this boot
* and page extension core can skip to allocate memory. As result,
* none of memory is wasted.
*
* When need callback returns true, page_ext checks if there is a request for
* extra memory through size in struct page_ext_operations. If it is non-zero,
* extra space is allocated for each page_ext entry and offset is returned to
* user through offset in struct page_ext_operations.
*
* The init callback is used to do proper initialization after page extension
* is completely initialized. In sparse memory system, extra memory is
* allocated some time later than memmap is allocated. In other words, lifetime
* of memory for page extension isn't same with memmap for struct page.
* Therefore, clients can't store extra data until page extension is
* initialized, even if pages are allocated and used freely. This could
* cause inadequate state of extra data per page, so, to prevent it, client
* can utilize this callback to initialize the state of it correctly.
*/
static struct page_ext_operations *page_ext_ops[] = {
&debug_guardpage_ops,