similar to: [PATCH] mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount

This is still an RFC because after looking at the pmem/dax code some more, I realized that the ZONE_DEVICE struct pages are being inserted into the process' page tables with vmf_insert_mixed() and a zero refcount on the ZONE_DEVICE struct page. This is sort of OK because insert_pfn() increments the reference count on the pgmap which is what prevents memunmap_pages() from freeing the struct

Matthew Wilcox, Ira Weiny, and others have complained that ZONE_DEVICE struct page reference counting is ugly because they are "free" when the reference count is one instead of zero. This leads to explicit checks for ZONE_DEVICE pages in places like put_page(), GUP, THP splitting, and page migration which have to adjust the expected reference count when determining if the page is

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:44:42PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote: > ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the > code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the > reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, > migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to > be

Hi Dan, Jérôme and Jason, below is a series that cleans up the dev_pagemap interface so that it is more easily usable, which removes the need to wrap it in hmm and thus allowing to kill a lot of code Note: this series is on top of Linux 5.2-rc5 and has some minor conflicts with the hmm tree that are easy to resolve. Diffstat summary: 32 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 1012 deletions(-) Git

Hi Dan, Jérôme and Jason, below is a series that cleans up the dev_pagemap interface so that it is more easily usable, which removes the need to wrap it in hmm and thus allowing to kill a lot of code Note: this series is on top of the rdma/hmm branch + the dev_pagemap releas fix series from Dan that went into 5.2-rc5. Git tree: git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git

ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to be treated specially for device private pages, leaving DAX as still being a special case.

Hi Dan, Jérôme and Jason, below is a series that cleans up the dev_pagemap interface so that it is more easily usable, which removes the need to wrap it in hmm and thus allowing to kill a lot of code Diffstat: 22 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 802 deletions(-) Git tree: git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git hmm-devmem-cleanup Gitweb:

ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to be treated specially for ZONE_DEVICE. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at

> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h > index 517751310dd2..5a82037a4b26 100644 > --- a/include/linux/mm.h > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h > @@ -1093,34 +1093,6 @@ static inline bool is_zone_device_page(const struct page *page) > #ifdef CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS > void free_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page); > DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(devmap_managed_key);

On 9/15/20 11:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h >> index 517751310dd2..5a82037a4b26 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/mm.h >> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h >> @@ -1093,34 +1093,6 @@ static inline bool is_zone_device_page(const struct page *page) >> #ifdef CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS >> void

ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to be treated specially for device private pages, leaving DAX as still being a special case.

ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, migration, etc.). Clean up the code so the reference count doesn't need to be treated specially for ZONE_DEVICE. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Just check if there is a ->page_free operation set and take care of the > static key enable, as well as the put using device managed resources. > Also check that a ->page_free is provided for the pgmaps types that > require it, and check for a valid type as well while we are at it. > > Note that this also

When acting on device private mappings a driver needs to know if the device (or other entity in case of kvmppc) actually owns this private mapping. This series adds an owner field and converts the migrate_vma code over to check it. I looked into doing the same for hmm_range_fault, but as far as I can tell that code has never been wired up to actually work for device private memory, so instead of

Just check if there is a ->page_free operation set and take care of the static key enable, as well as the put using device managed resources. Also check that a ->page_free is provided for the pgmaps types that require it, and check for a valid type as well while we are at it. Note that this also fixes the fact that hmm never called dev_pagemap_put_ops and thus would leave the slow path

Just check if there is a ->page_free operation set and take care of the static key enable, as well as the put using device managed resources. Also check that a ->page_free is provided for the pgmaps types that require it, and check for a valid type as well while we are at it. Note that this also fixes the fact that hmm never called dev_pagemap_put_ops and thus would leave the slow path

Just check if there is a ->page_free operation set and take care of the static key enable, as well as the put using device managed resources. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> --- drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 23 +++-------------- include/linux/mm.h | 10 -------- kernel/memremap.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- mm/hmm.c | 2 -- 4 files

On 9/14/20 4:10 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:45 PM Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com> wrote: >> >> ZONE_DEVICE struct pages have an extra reference count that complicates the >> code for put_page() and several places in the kernel that need to check the >> reference count to see that a page is not being used (gup, compaction, >>

This series adds support for transparent huge page migration to migrate_vma_*() and adds nouveau SVM and HMM selftests as consumers. Earlier versions were posted previously [1] and [2]. The patches apply cleanly to the linux-mm 5.10.0-rc2 tree. There are a lot of other THP patches being posted. I don't think there are any semantic conflicts but there may be some merge conflicts depending on

When acting on device private mappings a driver needs to know if the device (or other entity in case of kvmppc) actually owns this private mapping. This series adds an owner field and converts the migrate_vma code over to check it. I looked into doing the same for hmm_range_fault, but as far as I can tell that code has never been wired up to actually work for device private memory, so instead of