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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:38:47 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...y.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: Use "high-order" in description non
0-order pages
On 09/10/24 at 10:57am, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:40:42AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 09/09/24 at 07:52pm, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 10:56:57AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > On 09/06/24 at 11:50am, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > > > > In many places, in the comments, we use both "higher-order" and
> > > > > "high-order" to describe the non 0-order pages. That is confusing,
> > > > > because a "higher-order" statement does not reflect what it is
> > > > > compared with.
> > > > >
> > > > > Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++--
> > > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > This looks good to me, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > > >
> > > > By the way, do you plan to clean up the rest of them in other places?
> > > >
> > > urezki@...38:~/data/raid0/coding/linux-next.git$ grep -rni higher include/linux/vmalloc.h
> > > urezki@...38:~/data/raid0/coding/linux-next.git$ grep -rni higher mm/vmalloc.c
> > > 493: * nr is a running index into the array which helps higher level
> > > urezki@...38:~/data/raid0/coding/linux-next.git$
> > >
> > > What am i missing? Didn't i do it?
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't make it clear. I meant those places other than vmalloc
> > related files, e.g mm/page_alloc.c, there are a lot of [Hhigh]er-order
> > mixed with high-order. I can continue the cleaning sometime if it's not
> > in your TO-DO list.
> >
> > mm/page_alloc.c:551: * Higher-order pages are called "compound pages". They are structured thusly:
> > mm/page_alloc.c:716: * of the next-higher order is free. If it is, it's possible
> > mm/page_alloc.c:720: * as a 2-level higher order page
> > mm/page_alloc.c:735: return find_buddy_page_pfn(higher_page, higher_page_pfn, order + 1,
> > mm/page_alloc.c:2750: * split_page takes a non-compound higher-order page, and splits it into
> > mm/page_alloc.c:3587: /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
> > mm/page_alloc.c:4811: * within a 0 or higher order page. Multiple fragments within that page
> > mm/page_alloc.c:6516: * page allocator holds, ie. they can be part of higher order
> > mm/page_alloc.c:6790: * Break down a higher-order page in sub-pages, and keep our target out of
> >
> I see. I appreciate if you go ahead and improve it further.
Ok, will do later.
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