Re: Question regarding map count for compound pages

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:47:01PM -0400, Harish Mara wrote:
> Background:
> On older kernel?s, we could have our device driver create char devices and 

Which device driver is this?

> It looks like the culprit is zap_pte_range(), which calls 
> page_remove_rmap() with the compound_flag = false. As a result, instead of 
> decrementing the compound_mapcount for the page the page->_mapcount is 
> decremented causing a lot of bad page errors.

There is a lot of confusion in the core MM between 'compound page'
and 'PMD allocation'.  I'm trying to fix it; do you have time to help?




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