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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Miaohe Lin' <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: "vbabka@suse.cz" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	"sfr@canb.auug.org.au" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mgorman@techsingularity.net" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: simplify the code by using macro K()
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 21:25:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2f9754bef1b48b8b58718b2af21895f@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03653d41-abe0-46f0-9eee-28cad9f5edea@huawei.com>

From: Miaohe Lin
> Sent: 01 September 2021 08:38
...
> >>> Shouldn't this macro go to some header file instead to get rid of define
> >>> repetitions?
> >>
> >> Many thanks for figuring this out. I think we should get rid of these
> >> repetitions too. But I'am not sure where this definition should be. Any
> >> suggestion? Thanks.
> >
> > I'm not sure what place suits best. At first I thought maybe linux/mm.h or
> > linux/mm_inline.h, but since PAGE_SHIFT is declared in asm-generic/page.h,
> > probably K(x) can also go there as well?
> 
> K(x) is relevant with PAGE_SHIFT. So I think K(x) can also go asm-generic/page.h too.
> Am I supposed to do this when free or will you kindly do this?

It is a bit of a short name to go in a public header file.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30 14:10 [PATCH 0/6] Cleanups and fixup for page_alloc Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove meaningless VM_BUG_ON() in pindex_to_order() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:34   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:05   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: simplify the code by using macro K() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31  8:54   ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-08-31 11:08     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 14:19       ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01  7:37         ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01  7:46           ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01  8:17             ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 21:25           ` David Laight [this message]
2021-09-02  6:32             ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:35   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:07   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:38   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-01  7:49     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 15:14       ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-02  6:25         ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc.c: use helper function zone_spans_pfn() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:39   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:08   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:43   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:23     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01  8:02       ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01  8:10         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01  8:18           ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:34     ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01  8:04       ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid allocating highmem pages via alloc_pages_exact_nid() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-31  1:56     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:37       ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01  8:05         ` Miaohe Lin

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