On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 5:00 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 03:40:50PM +1300, Barry Song wrote: > > From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx> > > > > madvise and some others might need folio_pte_batch to check if a range > > of PTEs are completely mapped to a large folio with contiguous physcial > > addresses. Let's export it for others to use. > > It doesn't look exported to me in the patch (and that's a good thing!). > > But even for making it non-static you probably want to include that in > the series actually making use of it. at least two parallel jobs[1][2] (maybe more ) need it right now. Getting this one pulled in early will help build a common base for them and avoid duplicates&conflicts in them. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240118111036.72641-7-21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240225123215.86503-1-ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > +extern int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr, > > + pte_t *start_ptep, pte_t pte, int max_nr, fpb_t flags, > > + bool *any_writable); > > no need for the extern here. Yes. this has been moved to internal.h as "static inline" in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240227104201.337988-1-21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx/ Thanks Barry
