[PATCH v4 10/25] mm/mm_init: Move p2pdma page refcount initialisation to p2pdma
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Sat Dec 21 05:29:18 AEDT 2024
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>>
>> But that's a bit weird: we call __init_single_page()->init_page_count() to
>> initialize it to 1, to then set it back to 0.
>>
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>> Maybe we can just pass to __init_single_page() the refcount we want to have
>> directly? Can be a patch on top of course.
>
> Once the dust settles on this series we won't need the pgmap->type check at
> all because all ZONE_DEVICE pages will get an initial count of 0. I have some
> follow up clean-ups for after this series is applied (particularly with regards
> to pgmap refcounts), so if it's ok I'd rather do this as a follow-up.
Sure. For ordinary memory hotplug I'll also convert it to start with
refcount=0 soonish, so there we're also simply pass 0 to __init_single_page.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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