Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/memory_hotplug: Create add/del_device_memory functions

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 05:33:40 EST


> > /*
> > * For device private memory we call add_pages() as we only need to
> > * allocate and initialize struct page for the device memory. More-
> > @@ -1096,20 +1100,17 @@ static int hmm_devmem_pages_create(struct hmm_devmem *devmem)
> > * want the linear mapping and thus use arch_add_memory().
> > */
>
> Some parts of this comment should be moved into add_device_memory now.
> (e.g. we call add_pages() ...)

I agree.

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
> > +int del_device_memory(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
> > + struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool mapping)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
>
> nit: personally I prefer short parameters last in the list.

I do not have a strong opinion here.
If people think that long parameters should be placed at the end because
it improves readability, I am ok with moving them there.

> Can you document for both functions that they should be called with the
> memory hotplug lock in write?

Sure, I will do that in the next version, once I get some more feedback.

> Apart from that looks good to me.

Thanks for reviewing it David ;-)!
May I assume your Reviewed-by here (if the above comments are addressed)?

Thanks
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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3