linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm/follow_page_mask: Split follow_page

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Message-ID: <20170427093942.GB8842@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:39:42 +0000
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "mpe@...erman.id.au" <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm/follow_page_mask: Split follow_page_mask to
 smaller functions.

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:41:41PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Makes code reading easy. No functional changes in this patch. In a followup
> patch, we will be updating the follow_page_mask to handle hugetlb hugepd format
> so that archs like ppc64 can switch to the generic version. This split helps
> in doing that nicely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>