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[v8,0/8] Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split

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Zi Yan Feb. 18, 2025, 11:50 p.m. UTC 
Hi all,

This patchset adds a new buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) large folio
split from a order-n folio to order-m with m < n. It reduces
1. the total number of after-split folios from 2^(n-m) to n-m+1;
2. the amount of memory needed for multi-index xarray split from 2^(n/6-m/6) to
   n/6-m/6, assuming XA_CHUNK_SHIFT=6;
3. keep more large folios after a split from all order-m folios to
   order-(n-1) to order-m folios.
For example, to split an order-9 to order-0, folio split generates 10
(or 11 for anonymous memory) folios instead of 512, allocates 1 xa_node
instead of 8, and leaves 1 order-8, 1 order-7, ..., 1 order-1 and 2 order-0
folios (or 4 order-0 for anonymous memory) instead of 512 order-0 folios.

It is on top of mm-everything-2025-02-15-05-49 with V7 reverted. It is ready to
be merged.


Instead of duplicating existing split_huge_page*() code, __folio_split()
is introduced as the shared backend code for both
split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() and folio_split(). __folio_split()
can support both uniform split and buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) split.
All existing split_huge_page*() users can be gradually converted to use
folio_split() if possible. In this patchset, I converted
truncate_inode_partial_folio() to use folio_split().

xfstests quick group passed for both tmpfs and xfs.


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