On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:40AM -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:28:25PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:44:34PM -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> > > From: Jonathan Lemon <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > netgpu pages will always have a refcount of at least one (held by
> > > the netgpu module).  If the skb is marked as containing netgpu ZC
> > > pages, recycle them back to netgpu.
> > 
> > What???
> 
> Yes, this is page refcount elevation.  ZONE_DEVICE pages do this also,
> which is hidden in put_devmap_managed_page().  I would really like to
> find a generic solution for this, as it has come up in other cases as
> well (page recycling for page_pool, for example).  Some way to say "this
> page is different", and a separate routine to release refcounts.
> 
> Can we have a discussion on this possibility?

Then propose a generic solution, not a "solution" like this.

greg k-h

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