Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: move internal mempolicy APIs to new internal header

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 7/16/26 16:30, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> There are no external users for this surface, reduce the scope.
> 
> Ulterior motive: a later patch will add an alloc_flags arg to some parts
> of this.
> 
> Note it might seem like this could just go in internal.h, since it's
> pretty small, but actually it will eventually need to import
> page_alloc.h, we don't want to import that from internal.h so best to
> proactively created this header now.

Hmm, maybe it could just go to page_alloc.h then? After all this is just
bunch of internal page allocation functions, which just take the mempolicy
pointer?

> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS         |  1 +
>  include/linux/gfp.h |  9 ---------
>  mm/filemap.c        |  2 ++
>  mm/mempolicy.c      |  1 +
>  mm/mempolicy.h      | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/shmem.c          |  1 +
>  mm/swap_state.c     |  1 +
>  7 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8813d5d7eb0c1..9cde99c259639 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17068,6 +17068,7 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
>  F:	include/linux/migrate.h
>  F:	include/linux/migrate_mode.h
>  F:	mm/mempolicy.c
> +F:	mm/mempolicy.h
>  F:	mm/migrate.c
>  F:	mm/migrate_device.c
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index 872bc53f32ec8..e4e974a6e5f90 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
>  
>  struct vm_area_struct;
> -struct mempolicy;
>  
>  /* Helper macro to avoid gfp flags if they are the default one */
>  #define __default_gfp(a,b,...) b
> @@ -274,8 +273,6 @@ struct page *alloc_pages_node_noprof(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  struct page *alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order);
>  struct folio *folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order);
> -struct folio *folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
> -		struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, int nid);
>  struct folio *vma_alloc_folio_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		unsigned long addr);
>  #else
> @@ -287,11 +284,6 @@ static inline struct folio *folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order)
>  {
>  	return __folio_alloc_node_noprof(gfp, order, numa_node_id());
>  }
> -static inline struct folio *folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
> -		struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, int nid)
> -{
> -	return folio_alloc_noprof(gfp, order);
> -}
>  static inline struct folio *vma_alloc_folio_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int order,
>  		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
>  {
> @@ -301,7 +293,6 @@ static inline struct folio *vma_alloc_folio_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int order,
>  
>  #define alloc_pages(...)			alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
>  #define folio_alloc(...)			alloc_hooks(folio_alloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
> -#define folio_alloc_mpol(...)			alloc_hooks(folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
>  #define vma_alloc_folio(...)			alloc_hooks(vma_alloc_folio_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
>  
>  #define alloc_page(gfp_mask) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 1dbb4c6f824e9..0dd8e2a15d746 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
> +#include "mempolicy.h"
>  
>  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>  #include <trace/events/filemap.h>
> @@ -63,6 +64,7 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/mman.h>
>  
> +#include "mempolicy.h"
>  #include "swap.h"
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index 5720f7f54d942..31c4e9f49b5e9 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
>  #include <linux/memory.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
> +#include "mempolicy.h"
>  #include "page_alloc.h"
>  
>  /* Internal flags */
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.h b/mm/mempolicy.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..d80fe4c559786
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
> +/*
> + * mm-internal API for mempolicy.c. Public API lives in
> + * include/linux/mempolicy.h.
> + */
> +#ifndef __MM_MEMPOLICY_H
> +#define __MM_MEMPOLICY_H
> +
> +#include <linux/gfp.h>
> +#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +struct folio *folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
> +		struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, int nid);
> +#else
> +static inline struct folio *folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
> +		struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, int nid)
> +{
> +	return folio_alloc_noprof(gfp, order);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +#define folio_alloc_mpol(...)			alloc_hooks(folio_alloc_mpol_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
> +
> +unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof(gfp_t gfp,
> +				unsigned long nr_pages,
> +				struct page **page_array);
> +#define  alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy(...)				\
> +	alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
> +
> +#endif /* __MM_MEMPOLICY_H */
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 5071177059a96..69f561332bb93 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
>  #include <linux/swapfile.h>
>  #include <linux/iversion.h>
>  #include <linux/unicode.h>
> +#include "mempolicy.h"
>  #include "swap.h"
>  
>  static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt __ro_after_init;
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index 5be825911e645..8ccd03c39a407 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
>  #include <linux/sysctl.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
> +#include "mempolicy.h"
>  #include "swap_table.h"
>  #include "swap.h"
>  
>