aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/module/os/linux
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'module/os/linux')
-rw-r--r--module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c b/module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c
index 3fe01c0b7..d3255dcbc 100644
--- a/module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c
+++ b/module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
#include <linux/kmap_compat.h>
#include <linux/mm_compat.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
#endif
#ifdef _KERNEL
@@ -1061,6 +1062,7 @@ abd_iter_page(struct abd_iter *aiter)
}
ASSERT(page);
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 0)
if (PageTail(page)) {
/*
* This page is part of a "compound page", which is a group of
@@ -1082,11 +1084,23 @@ abd_iter_page(struct abd_iter *aiter)
* To do this, we need to adjust the offset to be counted from
* the head page. struct page for compound pages are stored
* contiguously, so we can just adjust by a simple offset.
+ *
+ * Before kernel 4.5, compound page heads were refcounted
+ * separately, such that moving back to the head page would
+ * require us to take a reference to it and releasing it once
+ * we're completely finished with it. In practice, that means
+ * when our caller is done with the ABD, which we have no
+ * insight into from here. Rather than contort this API to
+ * track head page references on such ancient kernels, we just
+ * compile this block out and use the tail pages directly. This
+ * is slightly less efficient, but makes everything far
+ * simpler.
*/
struct page *head = compound_head(page);
doff += ((page - head) * PAGESIZE);
page = head;
}
+#endif
/* final page and position within it */
aiter->iter_page = page;