linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm: remove redundant check non_swap

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:42:04 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm: remove redundant check non_swap_entry()

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:26:18PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> > In zap_pte_range(), the check for non_swap_entry() and
> > is_device_private_entry() is redundant since the latter is a subset of the
> > former. Remove the redundant check to simplify the code and for clarity.
> 
> That is highly configuration dependent.
> 
> #else /* CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE */
> ...
> static inline bool is_device_private_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> {
>         return false;
> }

The commit message might be a bit confusing, as it is not a subset, I
would say that device_private_entry alone is sufficient to tell if the
entry is private or not.

For the !CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE case having it wired to false is
right.

Jason