linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page

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Message-ID: <5A938F26.4040901@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:37:58 +0800
From:   Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        mst@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c

On 02/13/2018 06:16 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-02-18 16:08:14, Wei Wang wrote:
>> The PAGE_POISON macro is used in page_poison.c only, so avoid exporting
>> it. Also remove the "mm/debug-pagealloc.c" related comment, which is
>> obsolete.
> Why is this an improvement? I thought the whole point of poison.h is to
> keep all the poison value at a single place to make them obviously
> unique.

There isn't a comment explaining why they are exposed. We did this 
because PAGE_POISON is used by page_poison.c only, it seems not 
necessary to expose the private values.
Why would it be not unique if moved to page_poison.c (on condition that 
it is only used there)?

Best,
Wei