Re: [PATCH -next] mm/vmacache: inline vmacache_valid_mm()

[Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

>> >+/*
>> >+ * This task may be accessing a foreign mm via (for example)
>> >+ * get_user_pages()->find_vma().  The vmacache is task-local and this
>> >+ * task's vmacache pertains to a different mm (ie, its own).  There is
>> >+ * nothing we can do here.
>> >+ *
>> >+ * Also handle the case where a kernel thread has adopted this mm via use_mm().
>> >+ * That kernel thread's vmacache is not applicable to this mm.
>> >+ */
>> >+static bool vmacache_valid_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>>
>> This needs (explicit) inlined, no?
>>
>
>oh, yeah. Funny how I said "both `static inline'" and made 'inline' only
>one of them.

Thinking a bit more about it, we don't want to be making vmacache_valid_mm()
visible, as users should only stick to vmacache_valid() calls. I doubt that
this would infact ever occur, but it's a bad idea regardless.

So I'd rather keep my patch as is. Yes, the compiler can already inline it for
us, but making it explicit is certainly won't harm.

Thanks,
Davidlohr