From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/34] mm: Add PAGE_TYPE_OP folio functions
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 23:20:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230525202011.GZ4967@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOzc2pxx489C26NnS9NHkUQY9PYiagzt-nYK6LnkJ1N3NYQWzg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:00:23AM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:56 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 12:27:56PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> > > No folio equivalents for page type operations have been defined, so
> > > define them for later folio conversions.
> >
> > Can you please elaborate why would we need folios for page table descriptors?
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> These macros are for callers that care about the page type, i.e. Table and
> Buddy. Aside from accounting for those cases, the page tables don't use folios.
> These are more for the cleanliness of those callers.
But why using folio APIs for PageType will be cleaner than using page APIs?
Do you have an example?
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-01 19:27 [PATCH v2 00/34] Split ptdesc from struct page Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/34] mm: Add PAGE_TYPE_OP folio functions Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-25 8:55 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-25 17:00 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-25 20:20 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2023-05-25 20:38 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-25 20:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-01 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/34] s390: Use _pt_s390_gaddr for gmap address tracking Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-25 8:58 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-25 17:12 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-01 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/34] s390: Use pt_frag_refcount for pagetables Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:27 ` [PATCH v2 04/34] pgtable: Create struct ptdesc Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 05/34] mm: add utility functions for ptdesc Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-25 9:09 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-25 18:04 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-25 20:25 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-25 20:53 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-27 10:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-27 15:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-05-28 5:47 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 06/34] mm: Convert pmd_pgtable_page() to pmd_ptdesc() Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 07/34] mm: Convert ptlock_alloc() to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/34] mm: Convert ptlock_ptr() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/34] mm: Convert pmd_ptlock_init() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/34] mm: Convert ptlock_init() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 11/34] mm: Convert pmd_ptlock_free() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 12/34] mm: Convert ptlock_free() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 13/34] mm: Create ptdesc equivalents for pgtable_{pte,pmd}_page_{ctor,dtor} Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-25 9:19 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-05-25 18:17 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 14/34] powerpc: Convert various functions to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 15/34] x86: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 16/34] s390: Convert various gmap " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 17/34] s390: Convert various pgalloc " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 18/34] mm: Remove page table members from struct page Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 19/34] pgalloc: Convert various functions to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 20/34] arm: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 21/34] arm64: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-02 1:48 ` kernel test robot
2023-05-02 2:21 ` kernel test robot
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 22/34] csky: Convert __pte_free_tlb() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 23/34] hexagon: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 24/34] loongarch: Convert various functions " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 25/34] m68k: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 26/34] mips: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 27/34] nios2: Convert __pte_free_tlb() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 28/34] openrisc: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 29/34] riscv: Convert alloc_{pmd, pte}_late() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 20:59 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 30/34] sh: Convert pte_free_tlb() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-06 11:35 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-05-15 19:11 ` Vishal Moola
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 31/34] sparc64: Convert various functions " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 32/34] sparc: Convert pgtable_pte_page_{ctor, dtor}() to ptdesc equivalents Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 33/34] um: Convert {pmd, pte}_free_tlb() to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-01 19:28 ` [PATCH v2 34/34] mm: Remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappers Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-05-18 12:12 ` [PATCH v2 00/34] Split ptdesc from struct page Jason Gunthorpe
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