Re: [PATCH v11 01/25] mm/gup: factor out duplicate code from four routines

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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 02:25:13PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> +static void put_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs)
> +{
> +	/* Do a get_page() first, in case refs == page->_refcount */
> +	get_page(page);
> +	page_ref_sub(page, refs);
> +	put_page(page);
> +}

It's not terribly efficient. Maybe something like:

	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) < ref, page);
	if (refs > 2)
		page_ref_sub(page, refs - 1);
	put_page(page);

?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov



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