From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 19:40:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gYtCmzPOWErYOkCCfD0ZvLcrgfR8n2kG3QPMww9B0gyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201006230930.3908-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com>
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:09 PM Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> There are several places where ZONE_DEVICE struct pages assume a reference
> count == 1 means the page is idle and free. Instead of open coding this,
> add a helper function to hide this detail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>
> I'm resending this as a separate patch since I think it is ready to
> merge. Originally, this was part of an RFC and is unchanged from v3:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201001181715.17416-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
>
> It applies cleanly to linux-5.9.0-rc7-mm1 but doesn't really
> depend on anything, just simple merge conflicts when applied to
> other trees.
> I'll let the various maintainers decide which tree and when to merge.
> It isn't urgent since it is a clean up patch.
Thanks Ralph, it looks good to me. Jan, or Ted care to ack? I don't
have much else pending for dax at the moment as Andrew is carrying my
dax updates for this cycle. Andrew please take this into -mm if you
get a chance. Otherwise I'll cycle back to it when some other dax
updates arrive in my queue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 23:09 [PATCH] ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper Ralph Campbell
2020-10-07 2:40 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2020-10-07 14:41 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-07 8:25 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-07 18:12 ` Ralph Campbell
2020-10-07 21:59 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 15:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
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