linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock

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Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:02:30 -0800 (PST)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Yang Li <yang.lee@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock_page() batch
 by pagevec

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 06:37:29PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Flags held in the low bits of a struct page pointer on the mlock_pvec.
> > + */
> > +#define LRU_PAGE 0x1
> > +#define NEW_PAGE 0x2
> > +#define mlock_lru(page) ((struct page *)((unsigned long)page + LRU_PAGE))
> > +#define mlock_new(page) ((struct page *)((unsigned long)page + NEW_PAGE))
> 
> You've tripped over one of the weirdnesses in the C preprocessor here.
> If the variable passed is not _named_ page, it gets cast to a pointer
> to a struct of the same name as the variable.  There's no way to tell
> cpp that that 'page' after 'struct' is literal and not to be replaced
> by the 'page' argument.
> 
> I'm going to change this to:
> 
> static inline struct page *mlock_lru(struct page *page)
> {
> 	return (struct page *)((unsigned long)page + LRU_PAGE);
> }
> 
> (mutatis mutandi for mlock_new)

Okay, thanks.  (You're not naming your folio "page" :-?)

Hugh