From: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
To: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] drm/ttm: separate PageHighMem() and PageHighMemZone() use case
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:49:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAmzW4MkKmAcFDHartRE6UK4W2SdZ519RP2UXYxCxzrvUWTzdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412ea2bd-1719-c086-b3e7-64eec6e2bdc4@amd.com>
2020년 4월 20일 (월) 오후 5:42, Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>님이 작성:
>
> Am 20.04.20 um 09:59 schrieb js1304@gmail.com:
> > 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 #4 for this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> for the TTM
> changes, but I can't judge if the general approach makes sense or not.
Thanks for review!
General approach needs to get an agreement from more developers.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-21 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-20 7:59 [PATCH 00/10] change the implemenation of the PageHighMem() js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm/page-flags: introduce PageHighMemZone() js1304
2020-04-20 11:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-20 11:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-21 6:43 ` Joonsoo Kim
2021-02-10 12:56 ` Prakash Gupta
2020-04-21 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-22 1:02 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 7:42 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-04-22 7:40 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 02/10] drm/ttm: separate PageHighMem() and PageHighMemZone() use case js1304
2020-04-20 8:42 ` Christian König
2020-04-21 6:49 ` Joonsoo Kim [this message]
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm/migrate: " js1304
2020-04-22 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-22 7:55 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 04/10] kexec: " js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 05/10] power: " js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm/gup: " js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm/hugetlb: " js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: " js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm/page_alloc: correct the use of is_highmem_idx() js1304
2020-04-20 7:59 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm/page-flags: change the implementation of the PageHighMem() js1304
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