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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 18:27:49 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 06/14] page_pool: convert to use netmem

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:20:43PM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> Abstrace the memory type from the page_pool so we can later add support
> for new memory types. Convert the page_pool to use the new netmem type
> abstraction, rather than use struct page directly.
> 
> As of this patch the netmem type is a no-op abstraction: it's always a
> struct page underneath. All the page pool internals are converted to
> use struct netmem instead of struct page, and the page pool now exports
> 2 APIs:
> 
> 1. The existing struct page API.
> 2. The new struct netmem API.
> 
> Keeping the existing API is transitional; we do not want to refactor all
> the current drivers using the page pool at once.
> 
> The netmem abstraction is currently a no-op. The page_pool uses
> page_to_netmem() to convert allocated pages to netmem, and uses
> netmem_to_page() to convert the netmem back to pages to pass to mm APIs,
> 
> Follow up patches to this series add non-paged netmem support to the
> page_pool. This change is factored out on its own to limit the code
> churn to this 1 patch, for ease of code review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>

..

> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h b/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h

..

> @@ -170,9 +172,10 @@ static inline void *page_pool_alloc_va(struct page_pool *pool,
>  	struct page *page;
>  
>  	/* Mask off __GFP_HIGHMEM to ensure we can use page_address() */
> -	page = page_pool_alloc(pool, &offset, size, gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
> +	page = netmem_to_page(
> +		page_pool_alloc(pool, &offset, size, gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM));
>  	if (unlikely(!page))
> -		return NULL;
> +		return 0;

Hi Mina,

This doesn't seem right, as the return type is a pointer rather than an
integer.

Flagged by Sparse.

>  
>  	return page_address(page) + offset;
>  }