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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQVy2uqLm2XyStYmzxSmsw7TzrB0XDhCRLymnf+L3NPxrA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:02:17 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/sparse: introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:54:54 +0800 Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> v1 -> v2:
>>  * add comments to describe alloc_usemap_and_memmap
>>
>> After commit 9bdac91424075("sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together."),
>> vmemmap for one node will be allocated together, its logic is similar as
>> memory allocation for pageblock flags. This patch introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap
>> to extract the same logic of memory alloction for pageblock flags and vmemmap.
>>
>
> 9bdac91424075 was written by Yinghai.  He is an excellent reviewer, as
> long as people remember to cc him!

could be that he forgot to use scripts/get_maintainer.pl

or get_maintainer.pl has some problem.

>
>> ---
>>  mm/sparse.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>> index 308d503..d27db9b 100644
>> --- a/mm/sparse.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>> @@ -439,6 +439,14 @@ static void __init sparse_early_mem_maps_alloc_node(struct page **map_map,
>>                                        map_count, nodeid);
>>  }
>>  #else
>> +
>> +static void __init sparse_early_mem_maps_alloc_node(struct page **map_map,
>> +                             unsigned long pnum_begin,
>> +                             unsigned long pnum_end,
>> +                             unsigned long map_count, int nodeid)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
...
could be avoided, if passing function pointer instead.

>>  static struct page __init *sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(unsigned long pnum)
>>  {
>>       struct page *map;
>> @@ -460,6 +468,62 @@ void __attribute__((weak)) __meminit vmemmap_populate_print_last(void)
>>  {
>>  }
>>
>> +/**
>> + *  alloc_usemap_and_memmap - memory alloction for pageblock flags and vmemmap
>> + *  @map: usemap_map for pageblock flags or mmap_map for vmemmap
>> + *  @use_map: true if memory allocated for pageblock flags, otherwise false
>> + */
>> +static void alloc_usemap_and_memmap(unsigned long **map, bool use_map)
...
>> @@ -471,11 +535,7 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
>>       unsigned long *usemap;
>>       unsigned long **usemap_map;
>>       int size;
...
>> -     /* ok, last chunk */
>> -     sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(usemap_map, pnum_begin, NR_MEM_SECTIONS,
>> -                                      usemap_count, nodeid_begin);
>> +     alloc_usemap_and_memmap(usemap_map, true);

alloc_usemap_and_memmap() is somehow confusing.

Please check if you can pass function pointer instead of true/false.

Thanks

Yinghai
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