[PATCH v5 02/24] mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Fri Jan 28 06:21:38 PST 2022


On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 05:25:52PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com>
> 
> ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the
> code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the
> reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction,
> migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to
> be treated specially for ZONE_DEVICE.
> 
> [logang: dropped no longer used section from mm.h including
>  page_is_devmap_managed, rebased on v5.17-rc1 (possibly poorly)]
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c     |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c |  2 +-
>  fs/dax.c                               |  4 +-
>  include/linux/dax.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/linux/memremap.h               |  7 +--
>  include/linux/mm.h                     | 44 ----------------
>  lib/test_hmm.c                         |  2 +-
>  mm/internal.h                          |  8 +++
>  mm/memcontrol.c                        |  6 +--
>  mm/memremap.c                          | 70 +++++++-------------------
>  mm/migrate.c                           |  5 --
>  mm/page_alloc.c                        |  3 ++
>  mm/swap.c                              | 45 ++---------------
>  13 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)

This patch still can't be applied until the FSDAX issues are solved,
right? See my remarks the last time it was posted..

Jason



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