From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: "vbabka@suse.cz" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"sfr@canb.auug.org.au" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"mgorman@techsingularity.net" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: simplify the code by using macro K()
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:32:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f94e8b6b-39cf-3aac-8cd1-c8859e820f84@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2f9754bef1b48b8b58718b2af21895f@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On 2021/9/2 5:25, David Laight wrote:
> From: Miaohe Lin
>> Sent: 01 September 2021 08:38
> ...
>>>>> Shouldn't this macro go to some header file instead to get rid of define
>>>>> repetitions?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for figuring this out. I think we should get rid of these
>>>> repetitions too. But I'am not sure where this definition should be. Any
>>>> suggestion? Thanks.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what place suits best. At first I thought maybe linux/mm.h or
>>> linux/mm_inline.h, but since PAGE_SHIFT is declared in asm-generic/page.h,
>>> probably K(x) can also go there as well?
>>
>> K(x) is relevant with PAGE_SHIFT. So I think K(x) can also go asm-generic/page.h too.
>> Am I supposed to do this when free or will you kindly do this?
>
> It is a bit of a short name to go in a public header file.
>
It seems K(x) is a bit of short and it needs a more self-annotated name.
We can discuss this there:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/1/334
Thanks.
> David
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 14:10 [PATCH 0/6] Cleanups and fixup for page_alloc Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove meaningless VM_BUG_ON() in pindex_to_order() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:34 ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: simplify the code by using macro K() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 8:54 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-08-31 11:08 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 14:19 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01 7:37 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 7:46 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01 8:17 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 21:25 ` David Laight
2021-09-02 6:32 ` Miaohe Lin [this message]
2021-08-31 13:35 ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:07 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:38 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-01 7:49 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 15:14 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-02 6:25 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc.c: use helper function zone_spans_pfn() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:39 ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:43 ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 8:02 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 8:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 8:18 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01 8:04 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid allocating highmem pages via alloc_pages_exact_nid() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-31 1:56 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01 8:05 ` Miaohe Lin
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