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mm: make ref_unless functions unless_zero only
authorGladyshev Ilya <gladyshev.ilya1@h-partners.com>
Sun, 1 Mar 2026 13:19:39 +0000 (13:19 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 5 Apr 2026 20:53:12 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
commit28266ac94a50e585c267a79d9ef5c2803d4dcd7a
tree90d3c72423c82316aa5ae5e60c070422004734ed
parente9c01915ae2b2bc9f02dbe994aca826a1021f0a2
mm: make ref_unless functions unless_zero only

There are no users of (folio/page)_ref_add_unless(page, nr, u) with u != 0
[1] and all current users are "internal" for page refcounting API.  This
allows us to safely drop this parameter and reduce function semantics to
the "unless zero" cases only.

If needed, these functions for the u!=0 cases can be trivially
reintroduced later using the same atomic_add_unless operations as before.

[1]: The last user was dropped in v5.18 kernel, commit 27674ef6c73f ("mm:
remove the extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount").  There is no trace of
discussion as to why this cleanup wasn't done earlier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0c89b49d38c671a0bdd35069d15ee13e08314d2.1772370066.git.gladyshev.ilya1@h-partners.com
Co-developed-by: Gorbunov Ivan <gorbunov.ivan@h-partners.com>
Signed-off-by: Gorbunov Ivan <gorbunov.ivan@h-partners.com>
Signed-off-by: Gladyshev Ilya <gladyshev.ilya1@h-partners.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/page_ref.h