linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: make page

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:15:51 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        vbabka@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: make page_evictable() inline

On Tue 17-03-20 12:04:11, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
[...]
> In fact, since it's only called by those three files, perhaps it should
> be in mm/internal.h?  I don't see it becoming a terribly popular function
> to call outside of the core mm code.

Agreed. I do not see any strong reasons why anything outside of the core
MM should care about evictability. So if moving it to internal.h is
reasonable without too much churn then I would that way.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs