On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 04:11:34PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> An upcoming patch changes and complicates the refcounting and
> especially the "put page" aspects of it. In order to keep
> everything clean, refactor the devmap page release routines:
>
> * Rename put_devmap_managed_page() to page_is_devmap_managed(),
> and limit the functionality to "read only": return a bool,
> with no side effects.
>
> * Add a new routine, put_devmap_managed_page(), to handle checking
> what kind of page it is, and what kind of refcount handling it
> requires.
>
> * Rename __put_devmap_managed_page() to free_devmap_managed_page(),
> and limit the functionality to unconditionally freeing a devmap
> page.
>
> This is originally based on a separate patch by Ira Weiny, which
> applied to an early version of the put_user_page() experiments.
> Since then, Jérôme Glisse suggested the refactoring described above.
I can't say I'm a big fan of this as it adds a lot more inlined
code to put_page, which has a lot of callsites. Can't we instead
try to figure out a way to move away from the off by one refcounting?
>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> mm/memremap.c | 16 ++--------------
> 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index a2adf95b3f9c..96228376139c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -967,9 +967,10 @@ static inline bool is_zone_device_page(const struct page *page)
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
> -void __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page);
> +void free_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page);
> DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(devmap_managed_key);
> -static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +
> +static inline bool page_is_devmap_managed(struct page *page)
> {
> if (!static_branch_unlikely(&devmap_managed_key))
> return false;
> @@ -978,7 +979,6 @@ static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> switch (page->pgmap->type) {
> case MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE:
> case MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX:
> - __put_devmap_managed_page(page);
> return true;
> default:
> break;
> @@ -986,6 +986,27 @@ static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> return false;
> }
>
> +static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + bool is_devmap = page_is_devmap_managed(page);
> +
> + if (is_devmap) {
> + int count = page_ref_dec_return(page);
> +
> + /*
> + * devmap page refcounts are 1-based, rather than 0-based: if
> + * refcount is 1, then the page is free and the refcount is
> + * stable because nobody holds a reference on the page.
> + */
> + if (count == 1)
> + free_devmap_managed_page(page);
> + else if (!count)
> + __put_page(page);
> + }
> +
> + return is_devmap;
> +}
> +
> #else /* CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS */
> static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> {
> diff --git a/mm/memremap.c b/mm/memremap.c
> index e899fa876a62..2ba773859031 100644
> --- a/mm/memremap.c
> +++ b/mm/memremap.c
> @@ -411,20 +411,8 @@ struct dev_pagemap *get_dev_pagemap(unsigned long pfn,
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_dev_pagemap);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
> -void __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +void free_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> {
> - int count = page_ref_dec_return(page);
> -
> - /* still busy */
> - if (count > 1)
> - return;
> -
> - /* only triggered by the dev_pagemap shutdown path */
> - if (count == 0) {
> - __put_page(page);
> - return;
> - }
> -
> /* notify page idle for dax */
> if (!is_device_private_page(page)) {
> wake_up_var(&page->_refcount);
> @@ -461,5 +449,5 @@ void __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> page->mapping = NULL;
> page->pgmap->ops->page_free(page);
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__put_devmap_managed_page);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_devmap_managed_page);
> #endif /* CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS */
> --
> 2.24.0
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