Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] mm/gup: Cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Oct 02 2018 - 11:49:41 EST


On 10/02/2018 04:26 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> + page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx);
>> + if (ctx.pgmap)
>> + put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap);
>> + return page;
>> }
> Do we still want to keep the function as inline? I don't think so.
> Let's move it into mm/gup.c and make struct follow_page_context private to
> the file.

Yeah, and let's have a put_follow_page_context() that does the
put_dev_pagemap() rather than spreading that if() to each call site.