linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for init use

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Message-ID: <b9344b71-3ae9-95c0-ccc2-ec3db37ccf9f@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:27:48 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com,
        mhocko@...e.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for
 init use

On 09/04/2018 11:33 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
>  			/* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
>  			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
>  
> -			SetPageReserved(page);
> +			__SetPageReserved(page);
>  		}
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -5518,7 +5518,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>  		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>  		__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
>  		if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
> -			SetPageReserved(page);
> +			__SetPageReserved(page);

Comments needed, please.  SetPageReserved() is opaque enough by itself,
but having to discern between it and an __ variant is even less fun.