Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: memcg: make memcg huge page split support any order split.

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Mon Mar 21 2022 - 14:57:27 EST


On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:21:24AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It sets memcg information for the pages after the split. A new parameter
> new_order is added to tell the new page order, always 0 for now. It
> prepares for upcoming changes to support split huge page to any lower
> order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 2 +-
> mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
> mm/memcontrol.c | 10 +++++-----
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 89b14729d59f..e71189454bf0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static inline void memcg_memory_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm,
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
>
> -void split_page_memcg(struct page *head, unsigned int nr);
> +void split_page_memcg(struct page *head, unsigned int nr, unsigned int new_order);

It looks a bit inconsistent, can't we switch to use either nr or order for both
arguments? The latter is preferable.

Other than that, the patch looks good to me.

Thanks!