[PATCH v6 02/13] mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount
Ralph Campbell
rcampbell at nvidia.com
Wed Aug 18 00:01:09 UTC 2021
On 8/12/21 11:31 PM, Alex Sierra 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.
>
> v2:
> AS: merged this patch in linux 5.11 version
>
> v5:
> AS: add condition at try_grab_page to check for the zone device type, while
> page ref counter is checked less/equal to zero. In case of device zone, pages
> ref counter are initialized to zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra at amd.com>
> ---
> 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 | 13 +----
> lib/test_hmm.c | 2 +-
> mm/internal.h | 8 +++
> mm/memremap.c | 68 +++++++-------------------
> mm/migrate.c | 5 --
> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++
> mm/swap.c | 45 ++---------------
> 12 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
>
I haven't seen a response to the issues I raised back at v3 of this series.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/4f6dd918-d79b-1aa7-3a4c-caa67ddc29bc@nvidia.com/
Did I miss something?
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