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mm: document zone device struct page field usage
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Patch series "mm/hmm: fixes for device private page migration", v3.

Testing the latest linux git tree turned up a few bugs with page
migration to and from ZONE_DEVICE private and anonymous pages.
Hopefully it clarifies how ZONE_DEVICE private struct page uses the same
mapping and index fields from the source anonymous page mapping.

This patch (of 3):

Struct page for ZONE_DEVICE private pages uses the page->mapping and and
page->index fields while the source anonymous pages are migrated to
device private memory.  This is so rmap_walk() can find the page when
migrating the ZONE_DEVICE private page back to system memory.
ZONE_DEVICE pmem backed fsdax pages also use the page->mapping and
page->index fields when files are mapped into a process address space.

Add comments to struct page and remove the unused "_zd_pad_1" field to
make this more clear.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Ralph Campbell authored and torvalds committed Aug 13, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -159,7 +159,16 @@ struct page {
/** @pgmap: Points to the hosting device page map. */
struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
void *zone_device_data;
unsigned long _zd_pad_1; /* uses mapping */
/*
* ZONE_DEVICE private pages are counted as being
* mapped so the next 3 words hold the mapping, index,
* and private fields from the source anonymous or
* page cache page while the page is migrated to device
* private memory.
* ZONE_DEVICE MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX pages also
* use the mapping, index, and private fields when
* pmem backed DAX files are mapped.
*/
};

/** @rcu_head: You can use this to free a page by RCU. */
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