[PATCH v6 06/13] mm, dev_pagemap: Do not clear ->mapping on final put

From: Dan Williams
Date: Sat Jul 14 2018 - 01:00:44 EST


MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX relies on typical page semantics whereby ->mapping
is only ever cleared by truncation, not final put.

Without this fix dax pages may forget their mapping association at the
end of every page pin event.

Move this atypical behavior that HMM wants into the HMM ->page_free()
callback.

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d2c997c0f145 ("fs, dax: use page->mapping...")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/memremap.c | 1 -
mm/hmm.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
index 5857267a4af5..62603634a1d2 100644
--- a/kernel/memremap.c
+++ b/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ void __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
__ClearPageActive(page);
__ClearPageWaiters(page);

- page->mapping = NULL;
mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);

page->pgmap->page_free(page, page->pgmap->data);
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index de7b6bf77201..f9d1d89dec4d 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -963,6 +963,8 @@ static void hmm_devmem_free(struct page *page, void *data)
{
struct hmm_devmem *devmem = data;

+ page->mapping = NULL;
+
devmem->ops->free(devmem, page);
}