linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/12] pci/p2pdma: Don't initialise page refcount to one

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Message-ID: <87r09rgfjj.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:07:51 +1000
From: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] pci/p2pdma: Don't initialise page refcount to one


>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/p2pdma.c b/drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
>> index 4f47a13..210b9f4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
>> @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ static int p2pmem_alloc_mmap(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	/*
>> +	 * Initialise the refcount for the freshly allocated page. As we have
>> +	 * just allocated the page no one else should be using it.
>> +	 */
>> +	set_page_count(virt_to_page(kaddr), 1);
>
> No doubt the subject line is true in some overall context, but it does
> seem to say the opposite of what happens here.

Fair. It made sense to me from the mm context I was coming from (it was
being initialised to 1 there) but not overall. Something like "move page
refcount initialisation to p2pdma driver" would make more sense?

 - Alistair

> Bjorn