Re: [PATCH v5 07/12] zsmalloc: factor page chain functionality out

[Minchan Kim]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:14:20AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (05/09/16 11:20), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > For page migration, we need to create page chain of zspage dynamically
> > so this patch factors it out from alloc_zspage.
> > 
> > Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> 
> [..]
> > +		page = alloc_page(flags);
> > +		if (!page) {
> > +			while (--i >= 0)
> > +				__free_page(pages[i]);
> 
> 				put_page() ?
> 
> a minor nit, put_page() here probably will be in alignment
> with __free_zspage(), which does put_page().

Normally, we use put_page in case that someone can grab a referece of
the page so we cannot free the page. Otherwise, alloc_page and
__free_page is more straight to me code readability POV.

> 
> 	-ss
> 
> > +			return NULL;
> > +		}
> > +		pages[i] = page;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	create_page_chain(pages, class->pages_per_zspage);
> > +	first_page = pages[0];
> > +	init_zspage(class, first_page);
> > +
> >  	return first_page;
> >  }