Re: [PATCH 18/21] mm: rename free_area_init_node() to free_area_init_memoryless_node()

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 04/12/20 at 10:48pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> The free_area_init_node() is only used by x86 to initialize a memory-less
> nodes.
> Make its name reflect this and drop all the function parameters except node
> ID as they are anyway zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 5 +----
>  include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++------
>  mm/page_alloc.c    | 7 ++-----
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> index fe024b2ac796..8ee952038c80 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> @@ -737,12 +737,9 @@ void __init x86_numa_init(void)
>  
>  static void __init init_memory_less_node(int nid)
>  {
> -	unsigned long zones_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {0};
> -	unsigned long zholes_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {0};
> -
>  	/* Allocate and initialize node data. Memory-less node is now online.*/
>  	alloc_node_data(nid);
> -	free_area_init_node(nid, zones_size, 0, zholes_size);
> +	free_area_init_memoryless_node(nid);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * All zonelists will be built later in start_kernel() after per cpu
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 1c2ecb42e043..27660f6cf26e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2272,8 +2272,7 @@ static inline spinlock_t *pud_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud)
>  }
>  
>  extern void __init pagecache_init(void);
> -extern void __init free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long * zones_size,
> -		unsigned long zone_start_pfn, unsigned long *zholes_size);
> +extern void __init free_area_init_memoryless_node(int nid);
>  extern void free_initmem(void);
>  
>  /*
> @@ -2345,10 +2344,8 @@ static inline unsigned long get_num_physpages(void)
>  
>  /*
>   * Using memblock node mappings, an architecture may initialise its
> - * zones, allocate the backing mem_map and account for memory holes in a more
> - * architecture independent manner. This is a substitute for creating the
> - * zone_sizes[] and zholes_size[] arrays and passing them to
> - * free_area_init_node()
> + * zones, allocate the backing mem_map and account for memory holes in an
> + * architecture independent manner.
>   *
>   * An architecture is expected to register range of page frames backed by
>   * physical memory with memblock_add[_node]() before calling
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 376434c7a78b..e46232ec4849 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6979,12 +6979,9 @@ static void __init __free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long *zones_size,
>  	free_area_init_core(pgdat);
>  }
>  
> -void __init free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long *zones_size,
> -				unsigned long node_start_pfn,
> -				unsigned long *zholes_size)
> +void __init free_area_init_memoryless_node(int nid)
>  {
> -	__free_area_init_node(nid, zones_size, node_start_pfn, zholes_size,
> -			      true);
> +	__free_area_init_node(nid, NULL, 0, NULL, false);

Can we move free_area_init_memoryless_node() definition into 
arch/x86/mm/numa.c since there's only one caller there?

And I am also wondering if adding a wrapper
free_area_init_memoryless_node() is necessary if it's only called the
function free_area_init_node().

>  }
>  
>  #if !defined(CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP)
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>