mm: free device private pages have zero refcount
Since 27674ef6 ("mm: remove the extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount") device private pages have no longer had an extra reference count when the page is in use. However before handing them back to the owning device driver we add an extra reference count such that free pages have a reference count of one. This makes it difficult to tell if a page is free or not because both free and in use pages will have a non-zero refcount. Instead we should return pages to the drivers page allocator with a zero reference count. Kernel code can then safely use kernel functions such as get_page_unless_zero(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf70cf6f8c0bdb8aaebdbfb0d790aea4c683c3c6.1664366292.git-series.apopple@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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