Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] mm/thp: add prep_transhuge_device_private_page()

Ralph Campbell
2020-11-06T20:56:54Z

On 11/5/20 11:55 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:51:42PM -0800, Ralph Campbell wrote:
>> +extern void prep_transhuge_device_private_page(struct page *page);
>
> No need for the extern.

Right, I was just copying the style.
Would you like to see a preparatory patch that removes extern for the other
declarations in huge_mm.h?

>> +static inline void prep_transhuge_device_private_page(struct page *page)
>> +{
>> +}
>
> Is the code to call this even reachable if THP support is configured
> out? If not just declaring it unconditionally and letting dead code
> elimination do its job might be a tad cleaner.

The HMM test driver depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE but the nouveau SVM
option doesn't and SVM is still useful if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is not configured.

The problem with defining prep_transhuge_device_private_page() in huge_mm.h
as a static inline function is that prep_compound_page() and prep_transhuge_page()
would have to be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL which are currently mm internal only.
The intent is to make this helper callable by separate device driver modules
using struct pages created with memremap_pages().

>> +void prep_transhuge_device_private_page(struct page *page)
>
> I think a kerneldoc comment explaining what this function is useful for
> would be helpful.

That is a good idea. I'll add it to v4.