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Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2022 13:36:25 -0800
From:   Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To:     senozhatsky@...omium.org
Cc:     hannes@...xchg.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, minchan@...nel.org,
        ngupta@...are.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, sjenning@...hat.com,
        ddstreet@...e.org, vitaly.wool@...sulko.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] zsmalloc: Add ops fields to zs_pool to store evict handlers

Essentially, the zpool constructor allows us to set things up with a null
struct zpool, zpool_ops, or zpool_ops->evict, which we have to handle.  A
similar null-handling pattern can be observed in zbud (mm/zbud.c) and z3fold
(mm/z3fold.c) - see zbud_zpool_evict and zbud_zpool_create for e.g.

In particular:

1. pool->zpool_ops is the ops (containing the evict handler zpool_ops->evict)
passed into the zpool constructor (zs_zpool_create)

2. pool->ops/zs_zpool_ops (struct zs_ops) is a struct wrapping zs_zpool_evict,
which itself is a wrapper for the zpool evict handler (pool->zpool_ops->evict).
zs_zpool_evict also handles the case where zpool or zpool_ops is null, or
zpool_ops->evict is not defined (i.e return -ENOENT).

FWIW, I do think this is quite convoluted. In the long run, we might want to
simplify this design, but for this patch series I think it is wise to err on
the safe side and follow the other two allocators' design for consistency.

That said, while staring at the code again, I found a bug - in the case
pool->zpool_ops is null, pool->ops is undefined garbage. The v3 patch will fix
that to follow zbud's pattern (pool->ops = NULL in this case).

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