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From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] mm/khugepaged: change collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to return void
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:48:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <719f9bcd-0990-48e7-bf3b-929417a13db5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251224111351.41042-10-shivankg@amd.com>

On 12/24/25 12:13, Shivank Garg wrote:
> The only external caller of collapse_pte_mapped_thp() is uprobe, which
> ignores the return value. Change the external API to return void to
> simplify the interface.
> 
> Introduce try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp() for internal use that preserves
> the return value. This prepares for future patch that will convert
> the return type to use enum scan_result.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/khugepaged.h |  9 ++++-----
>   mm/khugepaged.c            | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/khugepaged.h b/include/linux/khugepaged.h
> index eb1946a70cff..37b992b22bba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/khugepaged.h
> +++ b/include/linux/khugepaged.h
> @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ extern void khugepaged_enter_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   				 vm_flags_t vm_flags);
>   extern void khugepaged_min_free_kbytes_update(void);
>   extern bool current_is_khugepaged(void);
> -extern int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> -				   bool install_pmd);
> +extern void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> +				    bool install_pmd);


Sorry for late review.

We remove the "extern" whenever we touch functions.

Nit: two tab indent on second parameter line. Same applies for the other 
code you touch below (if you already adjust that line, just indent with 
two tabs).


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-15 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-24 11:13 [PATCH V2 0/5] mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix Shivank Garg
2025-12-24 11:13 ` [PATCH V2 1/5] mm/khugepaged: remove unnecessary goto 'skip' label Shivank Garg
2025-12-24 11:34   ` Lance Yang
2025-12-24 11:13 ` [PATCH V2 2/5] mm/khugepaged: count small VMAs towards scan limit Shivank Garg
2025-12-24 11:51   ` Lance Yang
2025-12-24 14:49     ` Wei Yang
2025-12-28 17:58       ` Garg, Shivank
2025-12-24 11:13 ` [PATCH V2 3/5] mm/khugepaged: change collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to return void Shivank Garg
2025-12-24 12:21   ` Lance Yang
2025-12-29 16:40   ` Zi Yan
2026-01-15 23:48   ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) [this message]
2026-01-18 19:42     ` Garg, Shivank
2025-12-24 11:13 ` [PATCH V2 4/5] mm/khugepaged: use enum scan_result for result variables and return types Shivank Garg
2025-12-29 16:41   ` Zi Yan
2026-01-15 23:51   ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-24 11:13 ` [PATCH V2 5/5] mm/khugepaged: make khugepaged_collapse_control static Shivank Garg

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