Re: [PATCH 03/12] mm/pagewalk: Skip dax pages in pagewalk

Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-05T07:46:45Z

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 06:59:09PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> +/* return normal pages backed by the page allocator */
> +static inline struct page *vm_normal_gfp_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long addr, pmd_t pmd)
> +{
> + struct page *page = vm_normal_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
> +
> + if (!is_devdax_page(page) && !is_fsdax_page(page))
> + return page;
> + return NULL;

If you go for this make it more straight forward by having the
normal path in the main flow:

if (is_devdax_page(page) || is_fsdax_page(page))
return NULL;
return page;

> +static inline struct page *vm_normal_gfp_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long addr, pte_t pte)
> +{
> + struct page *page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte);
> +
> + if (!is_devdax_page(page) && !is_fsdax_page(page))
> + return page;
> + return NULL;

Same here.