[PATCH 7/8] mm: remove the extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at ziepe.ca
Wed Feb 9 14:14:27 UTC 2022
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 08:29:56AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > It is nice, but the other series are still impacted by the fsdax mess
> > - they still stuff pages into ptes without proper refcounts and have
> > to carry nonsense to dance around this problem.
> >
> > I certainly would be unhappy if the amd driver, for instance, gained
> > the fsdax problem as well and started pushing 4k pages into PMDs.
>
> As said before: I think this all needs to be fixed. But I'd rather
> fix it gradually and I think this series is a nice step forward.
> After that we can look at the pte mappings.
Right, I agree with this
Jason
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