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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-06-09 19:24:11
Also in: amd-gfx, dri-devel

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 03:42:19PM -0500, Alex Sierra wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -243,6 +243,16 @@ static inline bool dax_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 	return mapping->host && IS_DAX(mapping->host);
 }
 
+static inline bool dax_layout_is_idle_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	return page_ref_count(page) == 1;
+}
We already have something called an idle page, and that's quite a
different thing from this.  How about dax_page_unused() (it's a use
count, so once it's got down to its minimum value, it's unused)?

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