linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/thp: add THP allocation helper

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Date:   Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:01:47 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/thp: add THP allocation helper

> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +extern struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +					unsigned long addr);

No need for the extern.  And also here: do we actually need the stub,
or can the caller make sure (using IS_ENABLED and similar) that the
compiler knows the code is dead?

> +struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +				 unsigned long haddr)
> +{
> +	gfp_t gfp;
> +	struct page *page;
> +
> +	gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma);
> +	page = alloc_hugepage_vma(gfp, vma, haddr, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> +	if (page)
> +		prep_transhuge_page(page);
> +	return page;

I think do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page should be switched to use this
helper as well.