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 nonse
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 07:23:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 07:30:11PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Interesting. I had expected that to really fix the refcount problem
> > that fs/dax.c would need to start taking real page references as pages
> > were added to a m
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 10:33 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote:
[..]
> @@ -500,28 +482,27 @@ void free_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> */
> page->mapping = NULL;
> page->pgmap->ops->page_free(page);
> +
> + /*
> +* Reset the page count to 1 to prepare for h
On 2/6/22 22:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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 c
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 07:32:48AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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, m
