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Patch series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts", v9.
Device and FS DAX pages have always maintained their own page reference
counts without following the normal rules for page reference counting. In
particular pages are considered free when the refcount hits one rather
than zero and refcounts are not added when mapping the page.
Tracking this requires special PTE bits (PTE_DEVMAP) and a secondary
mechanism for allowing GUP to hold references on the page (see
get_dev_pagemap). However there doesn't seem to be any reason why FS DAX
pages need their own reference counting scheme.
By treating the refcounts on these pages the same way as normal pages we
can remove a lot of special checks. In particular pXd_trans_huge()
becomes the same as pXd_leaf(), although I haven't made that change here.
It also frees up a valuable SW define PTE bit on architectures that have
devmap PTE bits defined.
It also almost certainly allows further clean-up of the devmap managed
functions, but I have left that as a future improvment. It also enables
support for compound ZONE_DEVICE pages which is one of my primary
motivators for doing this work.
This patch (of 20):
FS DAX requires file systems to call into the DAX layout prior to
unlinking inodes to ensure there is no ongoing DMA or other remote access
to the direct mapped page. The fuse file system implements
fuse_dax_break_layouts() to do this which includes a comment indicating
that passing dmap_end == 0 leads to unmapping of the whole file.
However this is not true - passing dmap_end == 0 will not unmap anything
before dmap_start, and further more dax_layout_busy_page_range() will not
scan any of the range to see if there maybe ongoing DMA access to the
range. Fix this by passing -1 for dmap_end to fuse_dax_break_layouts()
which will invalidate the entire file range to
dax_layout_busy_page_range().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.8068ad144a7eea4a813670301f4d2a86a8e68ec4.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f09a34b6c40032022e4ddee6fadb7cc676f08867.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
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