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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pagemap: Add alert to mapping_set_release_always() for mapping with no release_folio
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:36:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTnn68vLGxFxO8kv@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251210200104.262523-1-dkarn@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 01:31:04AM +0530, Deepakkumar Karn wrote:
>  static inline void mapping_set_release_always(struct address_space *mapping)
>  {
> +	/* Alert while setting the flag with no release_folio callback */

The comment is superfluous.

> +	VM_WARN_ONCE(!mapping->a_ops->release_folio,
> +		     "Setting AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS with no release_folio");

But you haven't said why we need to do this.  Surely the NULL pointer
splat is enough to tell you that you did something stupid?

>  	set_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-10 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-10 20:01 [PATCH] pagemap: Add alert to mapping_set_release_always() for mapping with no release_folio Deepakkumar Karn
2025-12-10 21:36 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-12-11  9:23   ` Jan Kara
2025-12-12  9:37     ` Deepak Karn
2025-12-12 12:18     ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-12-12 17:47       ` Jan Kara
2025-12-12 18:38         ` Deepak Karn

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