linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/page_alloc: Clarify terminology in migratetype fallback code

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Message-ID: <218b81f2-3ed4-4389-b08b-c26dd8c0a4bc@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:05:16 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, Michal Hocko
 <mhocko@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/page_alloc: Clarify terminology in migratetype
 fallback code

On 2/24/25 19:42, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 13:37, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com> wrote:
>>  int find_suitable_fallback(struct free_area *area, unsigned int order,
>> -                       int migratetype, bool only_stealable, bool *can_steal);
>> +                       int migratetype, bool need_whole_block, bool *whole_block);
> 
> Agh, sorry, I was meant to rename all of these to claim_block.
> Apparently I got halfway through doing that then got distracted.
> 
> (Literally the whole point of this patch was to clean this up, and I
> somehow failed to actually do that!)

Given Johannes' patches went to mm-unstable meanwhile, this now expectedly
conflicts a lot so I'll wait with review for a new rebased version. Thanks!