[PATCH v3 08/15] mm/pte_ref: initialize the refcount of the withdrawn PTE page table page

From: Qi Zheng
Date: Wed Nov 10 2021 - 03:42:23 EST


When we split the PMD-mapped THP to the PTE-mapped THP, we should
initialize the refcount of the withdrawn PTE page table page to
HPAGE_PMD_NR, which ensures that we can release the PTE page table
page when it is free(the refcount is 0).

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/pgtable-generic.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index 4e640baf9794..523053e09dfa 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp)
struct page, lru);
if (pmd_huge_pte(mm, pmdp))
list_del(&pgtable->lru);
+ pte_ref_init(pgtable, pmdp, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
return pgtable;
}
#endif
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2.11.0