Re: [PATCH V2 3/4] mm: add a function to differentiate the pages is from DAX device memory

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Aug 07 2018 - 05:14:01 EST


On Wed 11-07-18 01:03:51, Zhang Yi wrote:
> DAX driver hotplug the device memory and move it to memory zone, these
> pages will be marked reserved flag, however, some other kernel componet
> will misconceive these pages are reserved mmio (ex: we map these dev_dax
> or fs_dax pages to kvm for DIMM/NVDIMM backend). Together with the type
> MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX, we can use is_dax_page() to differentiate the pages
> is DAX device memory or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <yu.c.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks OK to me but I don't really feel too confident about this
part of the kernel... But feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 6e19265..9f0f690 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -856,6 +856,13 @@ static inline bool is_device_public_page(const struct page *page)
> page->pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC;
> }
>
> +static inline bool is_dax_page(const struct page *page)
> +{
> + return is_zone_device_page(page) &&
> + (page->pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX ||
> + page->pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX);
> +}
> +
> #else /* CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS */
> static inline void dev_pagemap_get_ops(void)
> {
> @@ -879,6 +886,11 @@ static inline bool is_device_public_page(const struct page *page)
> {
> return false;
> }
> +
> +static inline bool is_dax_page(const struct page *page)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> #endif /* CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS */
>
> static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR