Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Aug 09 2021 - 02:40:40 EST
On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 04:50:17PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> try_grab_page() does the same thing as try_grab_compound_head(...,
> refs=1, ...), just with a different API. So there is a lot of code
> duplication there.
>
> Change try_grab_page() to call try_grab_compound_head(), while keeping
> the API contract identical for callers.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/gup.c | 29 ++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 5cb18b62921c..4be6f060fa0b 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -203,33 +203,8 @@ static void put_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
> */
> bool __must_check try_grab_page(struct page *page, unsigned int flags)
> {
> + if (flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))
> + return try_grab_compound_head(page, 1, flags) != NULL;
>
> return true;
Nit: something like:
if (!(flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)))
return true;
return try_grab_compound_head(page, 1, flags) != NULL;
would be a little easier to read.