[PATCH v7 01/14] mm: rename is_pinnable_pages to is_pinnable_longterm_pages

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Wed Jun 29 22:15:06 UTC 2022


On 30.06.22 00:08, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> On 2022-06-29 03:33, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 29.06.22 05:54, Alex Sierra wrote:
>>> is_pinnable_page() and folio_is_pinnable() were renamed to
>>> is_longterm_pinnable_page() and folio_is_longterm_pinnable()
>>> respectively. These functions are used in the FOLL_LONGTERM flag
>>> context.
>> Subject talks about "*_pages"
>>
>>
>> Can you elaborate why the move from mm.h to memremap.h is justified?
> 
> Patch 2 adds is_device_coherent_page in memremap.h and updates 
> is_longterm_pinnable_page to call is_device_coherent_page. memremap.h 
> cannot include mm.h because it is itself included by mm.h. So the choice 
> was to move is_longterm_pinnable_page to memremap.h, or move 
> is_device_coherent_page and all its dependencies to mm.h. The latter 
> would have been a bigger change.

I really don't think something mm generic that compiles without
ZONE_DEVICE belongs into memremap.h. Please find a cleaner way to get
this done.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



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