linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 084/138] mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions

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Message-ID: <89d1ce73-42cc-adef-1bfa-6eafb33e7b1b@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:25:00 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 084/138] mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions

On 7/15/21 5:36 AM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> The __folio_alloc(), __folio_alloc_node() and folio_alloc() functions
> are mostly for type safety, but they also ensure that the page allocator
> allocates a compound page and initialises the deferred list if the page
> is large enough to have one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>