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x86/mm: use pagetable_free()

The kernel's memory management subsystem provides a dedicated interface,
pagetable_free(), for freeing page table pages. Updates two call sites to
use pagetable_free() instead of the lower-level __free_page() or
free_pages(). This improves code consistency and clarity, and ensures the
correct freeing mechanism is used.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-7-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>
Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Lu Baolu and committed by
Andrew Morton
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arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
··· 1031 1031 free_reserved_pages(page, nr_pages); 1032 1032 #endif 1033 1033 } else { 1034 - __free_pages(page, order); 1034 + pagetable_free(page_ptdesc(page)); 1035 1035 } 1036 1036 } 1037 1037
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arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
··· 429 429 430 430 list_for_each_entry_safe(ptdesc, tmp, &pgtables, pt_list) { 431 431 list_del(&ptdesc->pt_list); 432 - __free_page(ptdesc_page(ptdesc)); 432 + pagetable_free(ptdesc); 433 433 } 434 434 } 435 435