linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 07/12] zsmalloc: factor page chain functionality out

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Message-ID: <20160516021420.GC504@swordfish>
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2016 11:14:20 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/12] zsmalloc: factor page chain functionality out

On (05/09/16 11:20), Minchan Kim wrote:
> For page migration, we need to create page chain of zspage dynamically
> so this patch factors it out from alloc_zspage.
> 
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

[..]
> +		page = alloc_page(flags);
> +		if (!page) {
> +			while (--i >= 0)
> +				__free_page(pages[i]);

				put_page() ?

a minor nit, put_page() here probably will be in alignment
with __free_zspage(), which does put_page().

	-ss

> +			return NULL;
> +		}
> +		pages[i] = page;
>  	}
>  
> +	create_page_chain(pages, class->pages_per_zspage);
> +	first_page = pages[0];
> +	init_zspage(class, first_page);
> +
>  	return first_page;
>  }