linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v2 4/4] mm/page_alloc.c: extract commom part to check page

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:00:24 +0800
From:   Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v2 4/4] mm/page_alloc.c: extract commom part to check page

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:19:38AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
>On 01/20/2020 06:06 PM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:13:38PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/20/2020 08:34 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>>>> During free and new page, we did some check on the status of page
>>>> struct. There is some common part, just extract them.
>>>
>>> Makes sense.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Besides this, this patch also rename two functions to keep the name
>>>> convention, since free_pages_check_bad/free_pages_check are counterparts
>>>> of check_new_page_bad/check_new_page.
>>>
>>> This probably should be in a different patch.
>>>
>> 
>> In v1, they are in two separate patches. While David Suggest to merge it.
>> 
>> I am not sure whether my understanding is correct.
>
>Keeping code refactoring and renaming separate is always better
>but its okay, will leave it upto you.
>

Agree with you :-)

Maybe I misunderstand David. Will split it in next version.

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Wei Yang
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