mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator

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The compaction capturing code assumes the allocation request order and
compaction target order are the same.  That won't be true once defrag_mode
promotes sub-block allocations to pageblock-order compaction: compaction
targets the larger order, while capture should remain at the original
allocation order.

Move the capture_control to the page allocator and give it its own copies
of what the page freeing path matches against - zone, migratetype and the
allocation order - rather than reaching into compaction's live
compact_control.  __alloc_pages_direct_compact() fills in migratetype and
order, and installs and hides current->capture_control around the whole
compaction call; try_to_compact_pages() aims capc->zone at each zone while
it is being compacted.  compact_zone_order() no longer deals with capture
at all.

Pass the capture_control through try_to_compact_pages() /
compact_zone_order() in place of the bare struct page **.

No functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260722150006.3848560-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: e3aa7df331 ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 2026-07-22 10:56:46 -04:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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mm/compaction.c

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mm/internal.h

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mm/page_alloc.c

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