linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: export folio_pte_batch as a couple of modules might need it

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:00:18 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>,
	Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: export folio_pte_batch as a couple of modules might
 need it

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 03:40:50PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
> 
> madvise and some others might need folio_pte_batch to check if a range
> of PTEs are completely mapped to a large folio with contiguous physcial
> addresses. Let's export it for others to use.

It doesn't look exported to me in the patch (and that's a good thing!).

But even for making it non-static you probably want to include that in
the series actually making use of it.

> +extern int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr,
> +		pte_t *start_ptep, pte_t pte, int max_nr, fpb_t flags,
> +		bool *any_writable);

no need for the extern here.