Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 4 authors, 2021-05-29

Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm: changes to unref pages with Generic type

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-05-29 06:42:31
Also in: amd-gfx

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:08:09PM -0400, Felix Kuehling wrote:
From: Alex Sierra <redacted>

pages in device mapping refcounts are 1-based, instead
of 0-based. If refcount 1, means it can be freed.
This logic is not set for Generic memory type. Therefore,
its release is threated as a normal page, instead of
the callback device driver release it.
So we really need to stop this magic one off refcount.  We had a WIP
patchset to do that, and we need to finish that off instad of piling on
more hacks.
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