linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/5] mm: add a signature in struct page

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Date:   Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:52:38 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Matteo Croce <mcroce@...ux.microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/5] mm: add a signature in struct page

On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 03:50:54AM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> And change all the *_pfmemalloc functions to use page->lru.next like this?
> 
> @@ -1668,10 +1668,12 @@ struct address_space *page_mapping(struct page *page);
> static inline bool page_is_pfmemalloc(const struct page *page)
> {
>        /*
> -        * Page index cannot be this large so this must be
> -        * a pfmemalloc page.
> +        * This is not a tail page; compound_head of a head page is unused
> +        * at return from the page allocator, and will be overwritten
> +        * by callers who do not care whether the page came from the
> +        * reserves.
>         */

The comment doesn't make a lot of sense if we're switching to use
lru.next.  How about:

	/*
	 * lru.next has bit 1 set if the page is allocated from the
	 * pfmemalloc reserves.  Callers may simply overwrite it if
	 * they do not need to preserve that information.
	 */