Device DAX pages are currently not reference counted when mapped, instead
relying on the devmap PTE bit to ensure mapping code will not get/put
references. This requires special handling in various page table walkers,
particularly GUP, to manage references on the underlying pgmap to ensure
the pages remain valid.
However there is no reason these pages can't be refcounted properly at map
time. Doning so eliminates the need for the devmap PTE bit, freeing up a
precious PTE bit. It also simplifies GUP as it no longer needs to manage
the special pgmap references and can instead just treat the pages normally
as defined by vm_normal_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/968d3a8e9157e7492e85d065765c027e525f9fc9.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.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: Dan Wiliams <dan.j.williams@intel.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: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.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>
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