Re: [PATCH] mm: zbud: Remove zbud_map() and zbud_unmap() function

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> zbud_unmap() is empty function and not getting called from
>> anywhere except from zbud_zpool_unmap(). Hence we can remove
>> zbud_unmap().
>>
>> Similarly, zbud_map() is only returning (void *)(handle)
>> which can be done within zbud_zpool_map(). Hence we can
>> remove zbud_map().
>
> The comments at the top of zbud.c talk about using zbud_map() and
> zbud_unmap(), so just removing the functions without changing the doc
> in the file is not right.
>
> Additionally, the functions will get compiled out, so this change
> won't actually make any difference in the compiled kernel.
>
> Finally, removing them from the header file makes the zbud API
> effectively unusable for any code except zpool, so it would be
> pointless to leave zbud.h in include/linux (which it doesn't
> necessarily need to be in anyway, but that's a different topic).
>
> I'd prefer to just leave zbud_map/zbud_unmap in the API, so NAK from me.

Thanks for the feedback :)

>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/zbud.h |  2 --
>>  mm/zbud.c            | 30 ++----------------------------
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/zbud.h b/include/linux/zbud.h
>> index b1eaf6e..565b88c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/zbud.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/zbud.h
>> @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ int zbud_alloc(struct zbud_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
>>         unsigned long *handle);
>>  void zbud_free(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle);
>>  int zbud_reclaim_page(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned int retries);
>> -void *zbud_map(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle);
>> -void zbud_unmap(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle);
>>  u64 zbud_get_pool_size(struct zbud_pool *pool);
>>
>>  #endif /* _ZBUD_H_ */
>> diff --git a/mm/zbud.c b/mm/zbud.c
>> index 28458f7..c83c876 100644
>> --- a/mm/zbud.c
>> +++ b/mm/zbud.c
>> @@ -188,11 +188,11 @@ static int zbud_zpool_shrink(void *pool, unsigned int pages,
>>  static void *zbud_zpool_map(void *pool, unsigned long handle,
>>                         enum zpool_mapmode mm)
>>  {
>> -       return zbud_map(pool, handle);
>> +       return (void *)(handle);
>>  }
>>  static void zbud_zpool_unmap(void *pool, unsigned long handle)
>>  {
>> -       zbud_unmap(pool, handle);
>> +
>>  }
>>
>>  static u64 zbud_zpool_total_size(void *pool)
>> @@ -569,32 +569,6 @@ int zbud_reclaim_page(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned int retries)
>>  }
>>
>>  /**
>> - * zbud_map() - maps the allocation associated with the given handle
>> - * @pool:      pool in which the allocation resides
>> - * @handle:    handle associated with the allocation to be mapped
>> - *
>> - * While trivial for zbud, the mapping functions for others allocators
>> - * implementing this allocation API could have more complex information encoded
>> - * in the handle and could create temporary mappings to make the data
>> - * accessible to the user.
>> - *
>> - * Returns: a pointer to the mapped allocation
>> - */
>> -void *zbud_map(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
>> -{
>> -       return (void *)(handle);
>> -}
>> -
>> -/**
>> - * zbud_unmap() - maps the allocation associated with the given handle
>> - * @pool:      pool in which the allocation resides
>> - * @handle:    handle associated with the allocation to be unmapped
>> - */
>> -void zbud_unmap(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
>> -{
>> -}
>> -
>> -/**
>>   * zbud_get_pool_size() - gets the zbud pool size in pages
>>   * @pool:      pool whose size is being queried
>>   *
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>

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