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Message-ID: <20181017093331.GA25724@techadventures.net>
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:33:31 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...hadventures.net>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, yasu.isimatu@...il.com,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, malat@...ian.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com,
        jglisse@...hat.com, Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, rafael@...nel.org,
        dave.jiang@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/memory_hotplug: Create add/del_device_memory
 functions

> >  	/*
> >  	 * For device private memory we call add_pages() as we only need to
> >  	 * allocate and initialize struct page for the device memory. More-
> > @@ -1096,20 +1100,17 @@ static int hmm_devmem_pages_create(struct hmm_devmem *devmem)
> >  	 * want the linear mapping and thus use arch_add_memory().
> >  	 */
> 
> Some parts of this comment should be moved into add_device_memory now.
> (e.g. we call add_pages() ...)

I agree.

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
> > +int del_device_memory(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
> > +				struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool mapping)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> 
> nit: personally I prefer short parameters last in the list.

I do not have a strong opinion here.
If people think that long parameters should be placed at the end because
it improves readability, I am ok with moving them there.
 
> Can you document for both functions that they should be called with the
> memory hotplug lock in write?

Sure, I will do that in the next version, once I get some more feedback.

> Apart from that looks good to me.

Thanks for reviewing it David ;-)!
May I assume your Reviewed-by here (if the above comments are addressed)?

Thanks
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

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