Re: [PATCH] ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper

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On 10/7/20 1:25 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
On Tue 06-10-20 16:09:30, Ralph Campbell wrote:
There are several places where ZONE_DEVICE struct pages assume a reference
count == 1 means the page is idle and free. Instead of open coding this,
add a helper function to hide this detail.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Looks as sane direction but if we are going to abstract checks when
ZONE_DEVICE page is idle, we should also update e.g.
mm/swap.c:put_devmap_managed_page() or
mm/gup.c:__unpin_devmap_managed_user_page() (there may be more places like
this but I found at least these two...). Maybe Dan has more thoughts about
this.

								Honza

I think this is a good point but I would like to make that a follow on
patch rather than add to this one.



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