linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/hugetlb: Refactor __unmap_hugepage

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Message-ID: <ced78ba0-8ba0-44e3-bbc7-e2ba82894639@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:51:53 +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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/hugetlb: Refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to
 take folio instead of page

On 28.04.25 19:11, nifan.cxl@...il.com wrote:
> From: Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>
> 
> The function __unmap_hugepage_range() has two kinds of users:
> 1) unmap_hugepage_range(), which passes in the head page of a folio.
>     Since unmap_hugepage_range() 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>
> ---

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

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb