diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
index 06b819db51b18d9e3aaa8e1ada8ed8e929597143..0ff8e60deccb78a941f73163212a25b23301f871 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void nicvf_get_page(struct nicvf *nic)
 	if (!nic->rb_pageref || !nic->rb_page)
 		return;
 
-	atomic_add(nic->rb_pageref, &nic->rb_page->_count);
+	page_ref_add(nic->rb_page, nic->rb_pageref);
 	nic->rb_pageref = 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
index 8114541f327cfe5ecd7e9b7629c593f886db835f..3aabfc0adefe39863a3e7db08bf8a375a2bdd647 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static inline int qede_realloc_rx_buffer(struct qede_dev *edev,
 		 * network stack to take the ownership of the page
 		 * which can be recycled multiple times by the driver.
 		 */
-		atomic_inc(&curr_cons->data->_count);
+		page_ref_inc(curr_cons->data);
 		qede_reuse_page(edev, rxq, curr_cons);
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 182b21825255397d8691431f7f47673b52ff79c7..01690338e3d283a1de55772219ea1703e125a34d 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ void __delete_from_page_cache(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 			 * some other bad page check should catch it later.
 			 */
 			page_mapcount_reset(page);
-			atomic_sub(mapcount, &page->_count);
+			page_ref_sub(page, mapcount);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 219bd197039e98b7cb1722b211722732b74abea8..4e809e978b7d274f3967349c87acda43aac57370 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ __frame_add_frag(struct sk_buff *skb, struct page *page,
 	struct skb_shared_info *sh = skb_shinfo(skb);
 	int page_offset;
 
-	atomic_inc(&page->_count);
+	page_ref_inc(page);
 	page_offset = ptr - page_address(page);
 	skb_add_rx_frag(skb, sh->nr_frags, page, page_offset, len, size);
 }