On 01/31/2018 09:56 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> On 01/30/2018 08:06 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: >>> On Tue 30-01-18 10:36:42, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >>>> Allocation helper functions for migrate_pages() remmain scattered with >>>> similar names making them really confusing. Rename these functions based >>>> on the context for the migration and move them all into common migration >>>> header. Functionality remains unchanged. > > I agree that their names could be made less confusing (though didn't > succeed very well when I tried); and maybe a couple of them are general > enough to be used from more than one callsite, and could well live in > mm/migrate.c. > > But moving all of page migration's (currently static) new_page allocator > functions away from the code that relies on their special characteristics > (probably relayed to them through a private argument), and into a single > header file, just seems perverse to me. And likely to be a nuisance when > adding more in future: private structures having to be made public just > to make them visible in that shared header file. > > Would it make sense to keep the various functions that may be called by > rmap_walk() together in one rmap_walk.h? The different filesystems' > writepage methods together in one writepage.h? I don't think so. Makes sense. Will probably just change the helper names to something more meaningful (from previous suggestions in this thread) next around. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
