linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/page-flags: introduce PageHighMemZone()

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:42:44 +0900
From:   Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/page-flags: introduce PageHighMemZone()

2020년 4월 22일 (수) 오전 10:02, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>님이 작성:
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:00:05AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I don't think the names are very good.  I'd keep PageHighMem for the
> > existing highmem zone, and add something like PageDirectMapped or
> > similar for ay page that has a valid direct mapping address.  This will
> > also come in handy if we plan to go ahead with the xpfo work.
> >
>
> I agree. It also looks like the only remaining place with PageHighMem()
> is using "if (!PageHighMem(page))", so "if (PageDirectlyMapped(page))" would be
> even better.

As mentioned in previous reply to Christoph, I will change the name after
everything is settle down.

> Joonsoo, the series in general looks very good to me. Please, feel free
> to add "Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>".

Thanks for reviewing this!

Thanks.