linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/hugetlb: Refactor unmap_hugepage

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Message-ID: <0ba5c4ab-1580-4286-b9df-5d4da4e9324e@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:52:36 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: nifan.cxl@...il.com, muchun.song@...ux.dev, willy@...radead.org
Cc: mcgrof@...nel.org, a.manzanares@...sung.com, dave@...olabs.net,
 akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>, Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/hugetlb: Refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to
 take folio instead of page

On 18.04.25 18:57, nifan.cxl@...il.com wrote:
> From: Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>
> 
> The function unmap_hugepage_range() has two kinds of users:
> 1) unmap_ref_private(), which passes in the head page of a folio.  Since
>     unmap_ref_private() already takes folio and there are no other uses
>     of the folio struct in the function, it is natural for
>     unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio also.
> 2) All other uses, which pass in NULL pointer.
> 
> In both cases, we can pass in folio. Refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to
> take folio.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
> ---
> v2:
> Picked up Reviewed-by tags;
> 
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/aAHUluy7T32ZlYg7@debian/T/#m7ba630d783e08ae708453279579093d481c6e721
> ---
>   include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
>   mm/hugetlb.c            | 7 ++++---
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index a57bed83c657..b7699f35c87f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *, struct mm_struct *,
>   			    struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
>   void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *,
> -			  unsigned long, unsigned long, struct page *,
> +			  unsigned long, unsigned long, struct folio *folio,
>   			  zap_flags_t);

Note that no parameters are using names. While I am not a big fan of 
that in general, we should keep it consistent.

Either name all or none.


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb