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Message-ID: <18ee4f16-0885-45f4-bea6-c025a1a0b969@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:55:03 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>, willy@...radead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] page_pool: access ->pp_magic through struct
 netmem_desc in page_pool_page_is_pp()

On 6/9/25 06:32, Byungchul Park wrote:
> To simplify struct page, the effort to separate its own descriptor from
> struct page is required and the work for page pool is on going.
> 
> To achieve that, all the code should avoid directly accessing page pool
> members of struct page.
> 
> Access ->pp_magic through struct netmem_desc instead of directly
> accessing it through struct page in page_pool_page_is_pp().  Plus, move
> page_pool_page_is_pp() from mm.h to netmem.h to use struct netmem_desc
> without header dependency issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

I'm not that worried about the new include as it's for a .c file and not
between .h files.

> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h   | 12 ------------
>  include/net/netmem.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  mm/page_alloc.c      |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index e51dba8398f7..f23560853447 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -4311,16 +4311,4 @@ int arch_lock_shadow_stack_status(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long status);
>   */
>  #define PP_MAGIC_MASK ~(PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK | 0x3UL)

Do you plan to move also all these PP_ constants/macros (bunch more above
this one) to a net header?

Thanks,
Vlastimil