Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] mm/migrate: change the interface of the migration target alloc/free functions

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jun 09 2020 - 10:04:26 EST


On Wed 27-05-20 15:44:59, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> To prepare unifying duplicated functions in following patches, this patch
> changes the interface of the migration target alloc/free functions.
> Functions now use struct alloc_control as an argument.

It also pulls private argument into alloc_control and keeps it that way.
Wouldn't it be better to use explicit types and names in a union? Each
allocation callback has to understant the meaning anyway. I would
consider the resulting code cleaner that way. What do you think?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs