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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	dave.jiang@intel.com, logang@deltatee.com, bhelgaas@google.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] fs/dax: Add dax_page_free callback
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:33:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240627053343.GD14837@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e626eda568267e1f86d5c30c24bc62474b45f6c3.1719386613.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:54:19AM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> When a fs dax page is freed it has to notify filesystems that the page
> has been unpinned/unmapped and is free. Currently this involves
> special code in the page free paths to detect a transition of refcount
> from 2 to 1 and to call some fs dax specific code.
> 
> A future change will require this to happen when the page refcount
> drops to zero. In this case we can use the existing
> pgmap->ops->page_free() callback so wire that up for all devices that
> support FS DAX (nvdimm and virtio).

Given that ->page_ffree is only called from free_zone_device_folio
and right next to a switch on the the type, can't we just do the
wake_up_var there without the somewhat confusing indirect call that
just back in common code without any driver logic?


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: linmiaohe@huawei.com, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, jack@suse.cz,
	david@redhat.com, djwong@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	david@fromorbit.com, peterx@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	will@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	vishal.l.verma@intel.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	willy@infradead.org, jgg@ziepe.ca, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, ira.weiny@intel.com,
	jhubbard@nvidia.com, npiggin@gmail.com,
	linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, logang@deltatee.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] fs/dax: Add dax_page_free callback
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:33:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240627053343.GD14837@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e626eda568267e1f86d5c30c24bc62474b45f6c3.1719386613.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:54:19AM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> When a fs dax page is freed it has to notify filesystems that the page
> has been unpinned/unmapped and is free. Currently this involves
> special code in the page free paths to detect a transition of refcount
> from 2 to 1 and to call some fs dax specific code.
> 
> A future change will require this to happen when the page refcount
> drops to zero. In this case we can use the existing
> pgmap->ops->page_free() callback so wire that up for all devices that
> support FS DAX (nvdimm and virtio).

Given that ->page_ffree is only called from free_zone_device_folio
and right next to a switch on the the type, can't we just do the
wake_up_var there without the somewhat confusing indirect call that
just back in common code without any driver logic?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-27  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-27  0:54 [PATCH 00/13] fs/dax: Fix FS DAX page reference counts Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 01/13] mm/gup.c: Remove redundant check for PCI P2PDMA page Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  6:36   ` Dan Williams
2024-06-27  6:36     ` Dan Williams
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 02/13] pci/p2pdma: Don't initialise page refcount to one Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  5:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-29 21:28   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2024-06-29 21:28     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 03/13] fs/dax: Refactor wait for dax idle page Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  5:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 04/13] fs/dax: Add dax_page_free callback Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:33   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-06-27  5:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27 23:48     ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27 23:48       ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: Allow compound zone device pages Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  5:35     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 06/13] mm/memory: Add dax_insert_pfn Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  5:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27 11:33   ` Jan Kara
2024-06-27 11:33     ` Jan Kara
2024-09-06  6:21     ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02  7:18   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02  7:18     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 10:47     ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 10:47       ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 11:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 11:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 11:53       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 11:53         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 07/13] huge_memory: Allow mappings of PUD sized pages Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27 22:26   ` kernel test robot
2024-06-27 22:26     ` kernel test robot
2024-07-02  7:16   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02  7:16     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 10:19     ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 10:19       ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 11:02       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 11:02         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 11:30         ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 11:30           ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 13:01           ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 13:01             ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 11:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 11:51         ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 12:22       ` Eliot Moss
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 08/13] huge_memory: Allow mappings of PMD " Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 09/13] gup: Don't allow FOLL_LONGTERM pinning of FS DAX pages Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-01  8:59   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-01  8:59     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-01 23:47     ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-01 23:47       ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-02 10:48       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-02 10:48         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 10/13] fs/dax: Properly refcount fs dax pages Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  5:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-27  5:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-09-06  6:00     ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 11/13] huge_memory: Remove dead vmf_insert_pXd code Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-05 14:24   ` Peter Xu
2024-07-05 14:24     ` Peter Xu
2024-07-09  4:07     ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-09  4:07       ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-09 15:56       ` Peter Xu
2024-07-09 15:56         ` Peter Xu
2024-07-12  2:40         ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-12  2:40           ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-12 15:52           ` Peter Xu
2024-07-12 15:52             ` Peter Xu
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 12/13] mm: Remove pXX_devmap callers Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54 ` [PATCH 13/13] mm: Remove devmap related functions and page table bits Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  0:54   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27 23:04   ` kernel test robot
2024-06-27 23:04     ` kernel test robot
2024-06-28  2:12   ` kernel test robot
2024-06-28  2:12     ` kernel test robot
2024-07-08 11:35   ` Will Deacon
2024-07-08 11:35     ` Will Deacon
2024-06-27  6:58 ` [PATCH 00/13] fs/dax: Fix FS DAX page reference counts Dan Williams
2024-06-27  6:58   ` Dan Williams
2024-06-27  7:15   ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27  7:15     ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-27 20:24     ` Dan Williams
2024-06-27 20:24       ` Dan Williams
2024-06-28  0:06       ` Alistair Popple
2024-06-28  0:06         ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-01  4:24 ` Dave Chinner
2024-07-01  4:24   ` Dave Chinner
2024-07-01  8:33   ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-01  8:33     ` Alistair Popple

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