mm: allow reuse of the lower 16 bit of the page type with an actual type

As long as the owner sets a page type first, we can allow reuse of the
lower 16 bit: sufficient to store an offset into a 64 KiB page, which is
the maximum base page size in *common* configurations (ignoring the 256
KiB variant).  Restrict it to the head page.

We'll use that for zsmalloc next, to set a proper type while still reusing
that field to store information (offset into a base page) that cannot go
elsewhere for now.

Let's reserve the lower 16 bit for that purpose and for catching mapcount
underflows, and let's reduce PAGE_TYPE_BASE to a single bit.

Note that we will still have to overflow the mapcount quite a lot until we
would actually indicate a valid page type.

Start handing out the type bits from highest to lowest, to make it clearer
how many bits for types we have left.  Out of 15 bit we can use for types,
we currently use 6.  If we run out of bits before we have better typing
(e.g., memdesc), we can always investigate storing a value instead [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

[[email protected]: fix PG_hugetlb typo, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>	[zram/zsmalloc workloads]
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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