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From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mst@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:37:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A938F26.4040901@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213101615.GO3443@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 02/13/2018 06:16 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-02-18 16:08:14, Wei Wang wrote:
>> The PAGE_POISON macro is used in page_poison.c only, so avoid exporting
>> it. Also remove the "mm/debug-pagealloc.c" related comment, which is
>> obsolete.
> Why is this an improvement? I thought the whole point of poison.h is to
> keep all the poison value at a single place to make them obviously
> unique.

There isn't a comment explaining why they are exposed. We did this 
because PAGE_POISON is used by page_poison.c only, it seems not 
necessary to expose the private values.
Why would it be not unique if moved to page_poison.c (on condition that 
it is only used there)?

Best,
Wei

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From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	mst@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:37:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A938F26.4040901@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213101615.GO3443@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 02/13/2018 06:16 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-02-18 16:08:14, Wei Wang wrote:
>> The PAGE_POISON macro is used in page_poison.c only, so avoid exporting
>> it. Also remove the "mm/debug-pagealloc.c" related comment, which is
>> obsolete.
> Why is this an improvement? I thought the whole point of poison.h is to
> keep all the poison value at a single place to make them obviously
> unique.

There isn't a comment explaining why they are exposed. We did this 
because PAGE_POISON is used by page_poison.c only, it seems not 
necessary to expose the private values.
Why would it be not unique if moved to page_poison.c (on condition that 
it is only used there)?

Best,
Wei

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From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	mst@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:37:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A938F26.4040901@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213101615.GO3443@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 02/13/2018 06:16 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-02-18 16:08:14, Wei Wang wrote:
>> The PAGE_POISON macro is used in page_poison.c only, so avoid exporting
>> it. Also remove the "mm/debug-pagealloc.c" related comment, which is
>> obsolete.
> Why is this an improvement? I thought the whole point of poison.h is to
> keep all the poison value at a single place to make them obviously
> unique.

There isn't a comment explaining why they are exposed. We did this 
because PAGE_POISON is used by page_poison.c only, it seems not 
necessary to expose the private values.
Why would it be not unique if moved to page_poison.c (on condition that 
it is only used there)?

Best,
Wei

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-26  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09  8:08 [PATCH] mm/page_poison: move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c Wei Wang
2018-02-09  8:08 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-09 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-09 16:23   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-09 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-13 10:16 ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-13 10:16   ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-26  4:37   ` Wei Wang [this message]
2018-02-26  4:37     ` Wei Wang
2018-02-26  4:37     ` Wei Wang
2018-02-13 10:16 ` Michal Hocko
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2018-02-09  8:08 Wei Wang

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