Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] mm: separate PageHighMem() and PageHighMemZone() use case

From: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
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	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
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	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	kernel-team@lge.com, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] mm: separate PageHighMem() and PageHighMemZone() use case
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 12:08:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAmzW4OZ9dW0j0f_o2hVCBVbeoLwFWrjAdiw87_dqfE9qvW5yg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200501123052.GD21897@infradead.org>

2020년 5월 1일 (금) 오후 9:30, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>님이 작성:
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:26:40PM +0900, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> >
> > Until now, PageHighMem() is used for two different cases. One is to check
> > if there is a direct mapping for this page or not. The other is to check
> > the zone of this page, that is, weather it is the highmem type zone or not.
> >
> > Now, we have separate functions, PageHighMem() and PageHighMemZone() for
> > each cases. Use appropriate one.
> >
> > Note that there are some rules to determine the proper macro.
> >
> > 1. If PageHighMem() is called for checking if the direct mapping exists
> > or not, use PageHighMem().
> > 2. If PageHighMem() is used to predict the previous gfp_flags for
> > this page, use PageHighMemZone(). The zone of the page is related to
> > the gfp_flags.
> > 3. If purpose of calling PageHighMem() is to count highmem page and
> > to interact with the system by using this count, use PageHighMemZone().
> > This counter is usually used to calculate the available memory for an
> > kernel allocation and pages on the highmem zone cannot be available
> > for an kernel allocation.
> > 4. Otherwise, use PageHighMemZone(). It's safe since it's implementation
> > is just copy of the previous PageHighMem() implementation and won't
> > be changed.
> >
> > I apply the rule #3 for this patch.
> >
> > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
> >  mm/page_alloc.c     | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > index 555137b..891c214 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ void generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> >       __free_pages_core(page, order);
> >       totalram_pages_add(1UL << order);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> > -     if (PageHighMem(page))
> > +     if (PageHighMemZone(page))
> >               totalhigh_pages_add(1UL << order);
> >  #endif
> >  }
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index fc5919e..7fe5115 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -7444,7 +7444,7 @@ void adjust_managed_page_count(struct page *page, long count)
> >       atomic_long_add(count, &page_zone(page)->managed_pages);
> >       totalram_pages_add(count);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> > -     if (PageHighMem(page))
> > +     if (PageHighMemZone(page))
> >               totalhigh_pages_add(count);
> >  #endif
>
> This function already uses the page_zone structure above, I think
> life would be easier of you compare against that, as that makes
> the code more obvious.

If I can kill all the PageHighMemZone() macro, I will use page_zone() above.
However, if it's not possible, I will leave it as it is. It would be
simpler than
your suggestion.

Thanks.