linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: Free device private pages have zero refcount

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:06:24 +1000
From:   Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@....com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: Free device private pages have zero refcount


Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 04:03:06PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
>> Since 27674ef6c73f ("mm: remove the extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page
>> refcount") device private pages have no longer had an extra reference
>> count when the page is in use. However before handing them back to the
>> owning device driver we add an extra reference count such that free
>> pages have a reference count of one.
>>
>> This makes it difficult to tell if a page is free or not because both
>> free and in use pages will have a non-zero refcount. Instead we should
>> return pages to the drivers page allocator with a zero reference count.
>> Kernel code can then safely use kernel functions such as
>> get_page_unless_zero().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c       | 1 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c | 1 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c   | 1 +
>>  lib/test_hmm.c                           | 1 +
>>  mm/memremap.c                            | 5 -----
>>  mm/page_alloc.c                          | 6 ++++++
>>  6 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> I think this is a great idea, but I'm surprised no dax stuff is
> touched here?

free_zone_device_page() shouldn't be called for pgmap->type ==
MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX so I don't think we should have to worry about DAX
there. Except that the folio code looks like it might have introduced a
bug. AFAICT put_page() always calls
put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page) but folio_put() does not (although
folios_put() does!). So it seems folio_put() won't end up calling
__put_devmap_managed_page_refs() as I think it should.

I think you're right about the change to __init_zone_device_page() - I
should limit it to DEVICE_PRIVATE/COHERENT pages only. But I need to
look at Dan's patch series more closely as I suspect it might be better
to rebase this patch on top of that.

> Jason