Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function access ->lru_lock directly

From: John Hubbard
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 17:11:40 EST


On 2/28/19 1:56 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 2/28/2019 10:44 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
>> Instead of removing that function, let's change it, and add another
>> (since you have two cases: either a page* or a pgdat* is available),
>> and move it to where it can compile, like this:
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
>> index 80bb6408fe73..cea3437f5d68 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
>> @@ -1167,6 +1167,16 @@ static inline pg_data_t *page_pgdat(const struct page *page)
>> return NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page));
>> }
>>
>> +static inline spinlock_t *zone_lru_lock(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>
> In that case it should now be named node_lru_lock(). zone_lru_lock() was a
> wrapper introduced to make the conversion of per-zone to per-node lru_lock smoother.
>

Sounds good to me.

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA