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Alistair Popple b7e2823787 mm/mm_init: move p2pdma page refcount initialisation to p2pdma
Currently ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts are initialised by core memory
management code in __init_zone_device_page() as part of the memremap()
call which driver modules make to obtain ZONE_DEVICE pages.  This
initialises page refcounts to 1 before returning them to the driver.

This was presumably done because it drivers had a reference of sorts on
the page.  It also ensured the page could always be mapped with
vm_insert_page() for example and would never get freed (ie.  have a zero
refcount), freeing drivers of manipulating page reference counts.

However it complicates figuring out whether or not a page is free from the
mm perspective because it is no longer possible to just look at the
refcount.  Instead the page type must be known and if GUP is used a
secondary pgmap reference is also sometimes needed.

To simplify this it is desirable to remove the page reference count for
the driver, so core mm can just use the refcount without having to account
for page type or do other types of tracking.  This is possible because
drivers can always assume the page is valid as core kernel will never
offline or remove the struct page.

This means it is now up to drivers to initialise the page refcount as
required.  P2PDMA uses vm_insert_page() to map the page, and that requires
a non-zero reference count when initialising the page so set that when the
page is first mapped.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6aedb0ac2886dcc4503cb705273db5b3863a0b66.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
arch Revert "x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode" 2025-03-17 00:05:35 -07:00
block block-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:12:33 -10:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation mm: zsmalloc: remove object mapping APIs and per-CPU map areas 2025-03-17 00:05:41 -07:00
drivers mm/mm_init: move p2pdma page refcount initialisation to p2pdma 2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
fs fs/dax: remove PAGE_MAPPING_DAX_SHARED mapping flag 2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
include fs/dax: remove PAGE_MAPPING_DAX_SHARED mapping flag 2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:09:33 -10:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel configs: drop GENERIC_PTDUMP from debug.config 2025-03-17 00:05:30 -07:00
lib lib/test_hmm: make dmirror_atomic_map() consume a single page 2025-03-17 00:05:29 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/mm_init: move p2pdma page refcount initialisation to p2pdma 2025-03-17 22:06:38 -07:00
net percpu: use TYPEOF_UNQUAL() in variable declarations 2025-03-16 22:05:53 -07:00
rust Driver core api addition for 6.14-rc3 2025-02-16 12:54:42 -08:00
samples samples/damon: a typo in the kconfig - sameple 2025-03-17 00:05:29 -07:00
scripts kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix build when specifying KBUILD_OUTPUT 2025-03-06 20:32:30 +09:00
security Landlock fix for v6.14-rc5 2025-02-26 11:55:44 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for ASUS Zenbook UM3406KA Laptops using CS35L41 HDA 2025-03-05 19:52:56 +01:00
tools tools/selftests: add guard region test for /proc/$pid/pagemap 2025-03-16 22:06:41 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vm 2025-02-04 11:27:45 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap 33 hotfixes. 24 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13 issues 2025-03-08 14:34:06 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml
COPYING
CREDITS mm: zbud: remove zbud 2025-03-16 22:06:01 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add Baolin as shmem reviewer 2025-03-17 00:05:42 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.14-rc6 2025-03-09 13:45:25 -10:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.