Re: [PATCH] mm: use vma_policy() to get vm_policy

[Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 12:37:45AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024, Shivank Garg wrote:
> 
> > Instead of accessing vma->vm_policy directly, use vma_policy() like
> > other places for consistency.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
> 
> NAK.  The vma_policy(vma) wrapper exists to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMAs
> all over the place; there is no point to it inside CONFIG_NUMA source.
> 
> Hugh
>

In that case we should do the opposite of this patch inside mempolicy.c

Only 1 place to update

~Gregory

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index b858e22b259d..beffdc17aad5 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(set_mempolicy_home_node, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, le
                 * or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY we return error. We don't reset
                 * the home node for vmas we already updated before.
                 */
-               old = vma_policy(vma);
+               old = vma->vm_policy;
                if (!old) {
                        prev = vma;
                        continue;