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Message-ID: <877eltgr7f.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:25:56 +0800
From: "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/swapfile.c: Replace some #ifdef with IS_ENABLED()
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> writes:
>> @@ -878,6 +877,11 @@ static int swap_alloc_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t *slot)
>> unsigned long offset, i;
>> unsigned char *map;
>>
>> + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP)) {
>> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>
> I see you seized the opportunity to keep this code gloriously
> unencumbered by pesky comments. This seems like a time when you might
> have slipped up and been temped to add a comment or two. Guess not. :)
>
> Seriously, though, does it hurt us to add a comment or two to say
> something like:
>
> /*
> * Should not even be attempting cluster allocations when
> * huge page swap is disabled. Warn and fail the allocation.
> */
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP)) {
> VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> return 0;
> }
I totally agree with you that we should add more comments for THP swap
to improve the code readability. As for this specific case,
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() here is just to capture some programming error during
development. Do we really need comments here?
I will try to add more comments for other places in code regardless this
one.
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
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