[Nouveau] [PATCH] mm: Take a page reference when removing device exclusive entries

[Alistair Popple]

John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> writes:

> On 3/28/23 20:16, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> ...
>>> +	if (!get_page_unless_zero(vmf->page))
>>> +		return 0;
>>  From a folio point of view: what the hell are you doing here?  Tail
>> pages don't have individual refcounts; all the refcounts are actually

I had stuck with using the page because none of this stuff (yet)
supports compound pages anyway so we shouldn't see a tail page
anyway. But point taken, I admit I need to find some time to get a
deeper internalised understanding of folios than just s/page/folio.

> ohh, and I really should have caught that too. I plead spending too much
> time recently in a somewhat more driver-centric mindset, and failing to
> mentally shift gears properly for this case.
>
> Sorry for missing that!
>
> thanks,