Hi Alistair,
kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:
[auto build test ERROR on f2661062f16b2de5d7b6a5c42a9a5c96326b8454]
url:
https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Alistair-Popple/mm-gup-c-Remove-redundant-check-for-PCI-P2PDMA-page/20240627-191709
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Dan Williams writes:
> Alistair Popple wrote:
>>
>> Dan Williams writes:
>>
>> > Alistair Popple wrote:
>> >> FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference counts
>> >> without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
>> >> particular pages are considered fre
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:54:19AM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
>> When a fs dax page is freed it has to notify filesystems that the page
>> has been unpinned/unmapped and is free. Currently this involves
>> special code in the page free paths to detect a transition
Hi Alistair,
kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:
[auto build test ERROR on f2661062f16b2de5d7b6a5c42a9a5c96326b8454]
url:
https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Alistair-Popple/mm-gup-c-Remove-redundant-check-for-PCI-P2PDMA-page/20240627-191709
base
Hi Alistair,
kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:
[auto build test ERROR on f2661062f16b2de5d7b6a5c42a9a5c96326b8454]
url:
https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Alistair-Popple/mm-gup-c-Remove-redundant-check-for-PCI-P2PDMA-page/20240627-191709
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Alistair Popple wrote:
>
> Dan Williams writes:
>
> > Alistair Popple wrote:
> >> FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference counts
> >> without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
> >> particular pages are considered free when the refcount hits one rathe
On Thu 27-06-24 10:54:21, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Currently to map a DAX page the DAX driver calls vmf_insert_pfn. This
> creates a special devmap PTE entry for the pfn but does not take a
> reference on the underlying struct page for the mapping. This is
> because DAX page refcounts are treated s
Dan Williams writes:
> Alistair Popple wrote:
>> FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference counts
>> without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
>> particular pages are considered free when the refcount hits one rather
>> than zero and refcounts are not