From: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: felix.kuehling@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, jglisse@redhat.com, jgg@nvidia.com,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm: changes to unref pages with Generic type
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 14:44:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4405335-80c8-3691-f9a8-93642f495f96@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210529064227.GD15834@lst.de>
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Am 2021-05-29 um 2:42 a.m. schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:08:09PM -0400, Felix Kuehling wrote:
>> From: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com>
>>
>> pages in device mapping refcounts are 1-based, instead
>> of 0-based. If refcount 1, means it can be freed.
>> This logic is not set for Generic memory type. Therefore,
>> its release is threated as a normal page, instead of
>> the callback device driver release it.
> So we really need to stop this magic one off refcount. We had a WIP
> patchset to do that, and we need to finish that off instad of piling on
> more hacks.
Sure. I'll be happy to help with that, if I can.
Thanks,
Felix
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 23:08 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Support DEVICE_GENERIC memory in migrate_vma_* Felix Kuehling
2021-05-27 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] drm/amdkfd: add SPM support for SVM Felix Kuehling
2021-05-29 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-29 18:42 ` Felix Kuehling
2021-05-27 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] drm/amdkfd: generic type as sys mem on migration to ram Felix Kuehling
2021-05-27 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] include/linux/mm.h: helper to check zone device generic type Felix Kuehling
2021-05-27 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm: add generic type support for device zone page migration Felix Kuehling
2021-05-29 6:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-27 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm: changes to unref pages with Generic type Felix Kuehling
2021-05-29 6:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-29 18:44 ` Felix Kuehling [this message]
2021-05-28 13:08 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Support DEVICE_GENERIC memory in migrate_vma_* Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-28 15:56 ` Felix Kuehling
2021-05-29 6:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-29 18:37 ` Felix Kuehling
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