[PATCH 2/7] mm: Free device private pages have zero refcount

Alistair Popple
2022-09-26T06:04:40Z

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@nvidia.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(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
index d4eacf4..08d2f7d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ static struct page *kvmppc_uvmem_get_page(unsigned long gpa, struct kvm *kvm)

dpage = pfn_to_page(uvmem_pfn);
dpage->zone_device_data = pvt;
+ set_page_count(dpage, 1);
lock_page(dpage);
return dpage;
out_clear:
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c
index 776448b..05c2f4d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ svm_migrate_get_vram_page(struct svm_range *prange, unsigned long pfn)
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
svm_range_bo_ref(prange->svm_bo);
page->zone_device_data = prange->svm_bo;
+ set_page_count(page, 1);
lock_page(page);
}

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c
index 1635661..f9234ed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ nouveau_dmem_page_alloc_locked(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
return NULL;
}

+ set_page_count(page, 1);
lock_page(page);
return page;
}
diff --git a/lib/test_hmm.c b/lib/test_hmm.c
index 89463ff..2bd3a67 100644
--- a/lib/test_hmm.c
+++ b/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static struct page *dmirror_devmem_alloc_page(struct dmirror_device *mdevice)
goto error;
}

+ set_page_count(dpage, 1);
dpage->zone_device_data = rpage;
lock_page(dpage);
return dpage;
diff --git a/mm/memremap.c b/mm/memremap.c
index 25029a4..e065171 100644
--- a/mm/memremap.c
+++ b/mm/memremap.c
@@ -501,11 +501,6 @@ void free_zone_device_page(struct page *page)
*/
page->mapping = NULL;
page->pgmap->ops->page_free(page);
-
- /*
- * Reset the page count to 1 to prepare for handing out the page again.
- */
- set_page_count(page, 1);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 9d49803..67eaab5 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6744,6 +6744,12 @@ static void __ref __init_zone_device_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
cond_resched();
}
+
+ /*
+ * ZONE_DEVICE pages are released directly to the driver page allocator
+ * which will set the page count to 1 when allocating the page.
+ */
+ set_page_count(page, 0);
}

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