Re: [PATCH v4 02/28] mm: Add an unlock function for PG_private_2/PG_fscache

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:38:00PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So ... a page with both flags cleared should have a refcount of N.
> > A page with one or both flags set should have a refcount of N+1.
> > ...
> > How is a poor filesystem supposed to make that true?  Also btrfs has this
> > problem since it uses private_2 for its own purposes.
> 
> It's simpler if it's N+2 for both patches set.  Btw, patch 13 adds that - and
> possibly that should be merged into an earlier patch.

So ...

static inline int page_has_private(struct page *page)
{
	unsigned long flags = page->flags;
	return ((flags >> PG_private) & 1) + ((flags >> PG_private_2) & 1);
}

perhaps?



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