linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: remove extra ZONE

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Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:29:41 +0530
From:   Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount

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 treated specially for ZONE_DEVICE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c     |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c |  2 +-
>  include/linux/dax.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/linux/memremap.h               |  7 ++-
>  include/linux/mm.h                     | 44 --------------
>  lib/test_hmm.c                         |  2 +-
>  mm/gup.c                               | 44 --------------
>  mm/internal.h                          |  8 +++
>  mm/memremap.c                          | 82 ++++++--------------------
>  mm/migrate.c                           |  5 --
>  mm/page_alloc.c                        |  3 +
>  mm/swap.c                              | 46 +++------------
>  12 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
> index 7705d5557239..e6ec98325fab 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
> @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static struct page *kvmppc_uvmem_get_page(unsigned long gpa, struct kvm *kvm)
>  
>  	dpage = pfn_to_page(uvmem_pfn);
>  	dpage->zone_device_data = pvt;
> -	get_page(dpage);
> +	init_page_count(dpage);

The powerpc change looks good. Passes a quick sanity test of
booting/rebooting a secure guest on Power.

Tested-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>

Regards,
Bharata.