On 27/04/17 10:14 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > You're overlooking that the page reference count 1 after > arch_add_memory(). So at the end of time we're just dropping the > arch_add_memory() reference to release the page and related > dev_pagemap. Thanks, that does actually make a lot more sense to me now. However, there still appears to be an asymmetry in that the pgmap->ref is incremented once and decremented once per page... Logan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>