From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>, ziy@nvidia.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev,
linux-mm@kvack.org, inux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm/huge_memory: rename __split_unmapped_folio to __split_frozen_folio
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:41:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3828920e-4a50-4f64-a25b-b6c677181fa9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251119054639.244202-1-jiaqiyan@google.com>
On 19.11.25 06:46, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> The correct prerequisite for this split utility isn't really about
> if the folio is unmapped; it is more about after unmapped, folio's
> refcount is zero and has also been frozen. So rename it to
> __split_frozen_folio.
>
> Add a warning in case the folio has non-zero refcount.
>
> No new function is added.
>
While we're at it, can we look into calling this something with the
prefix folio_split / __folio_split to get some consistent naming at one
point?
--
Cheers
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-19 5:46 Jiaqi Yan
2025-11-19 16:35 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-19 16:41 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) [this message]
2025-11-19 16:52 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-19 17:03 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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