From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org,
usama.arif@linux.dev, kasong@tencent.com, nphamcs@gmail.com,
shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, youngjun.park@lge.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm/swap: introduce struct swap_io_ctx
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:06:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260714050649.GA31523@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alWQMssVSvO8Zp1U@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 09:26:10AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi Chrisoph,
>
> On 07/13/26 at 11:33am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ......snip...
> > @@ -212,15 +212,15 @@ static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
> > pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> > ptep = NULL;
> >
> > - folio = read_swap_cache_async(entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
> > - vma, addr, &splug);
> > + folio = read_swap_cache_async(&ctx, entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
> > + vma, addr);
>
> Could you please help answer the question in v2?
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/aiFaWmCWgEWAFj4W@MiWiFi-R3L-srv/T/#u
>
> It's not clear to me why ctx need be put at the 1st parameter. And if
> only replace &splug with &ctx, there will be one less line of code
> change, and this applies to other places of change.
It is not needed, but passing a context as the first argument is a common
and good convention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-13 9:33 better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5 Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 1/7] shmem: provide a shmem_write_folio wrapper Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/swap: introduce struct swap_io_ctx Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-14 1:26 ` Baoquan He
2026-07-14 5:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm/swap: also use struct swap_iocb for block I/O Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm/swap: remove count_swpout_vm_event Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm/swap: use swap_ops to register swap device's methods Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm/swap: remove SWP_FS_OPS Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 9:33 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm/vmstat: add NRSWP{IN,OUT} counters Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 20:13 ` better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5 Andrew Morton
2026-07-14 5:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2026-07-10 6:39 better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v4 Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-10 6:39 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/swap: introduce struct swap_io_ctx Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-06 13:21 better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v3 Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-06 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/swap: introduce struct swap_io_ctx Christoph Hellwig
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