Re: [PATCH v3] mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion

[Bing Jiao]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 03:24:29PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> The nodemask_t type can be large depending on the setting of
> CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. Passing a large data structure on stack may not be a
> good idea. You can return a pointer to nodemask_t instead. In that case, you
> will have a add a "const" qualifier to the return type to make sure that the
> node mask won't get accidentally modified. Alternatively, you can pass a
> nodemask_t pointer as an output parameter and copy out the nodemask_t data.
>
> The name "cpuset_node_get_allowed" doesn't fit the cpuset naming convention.
> There is a "cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *)" to return
> "mems_allowed" of a task. This new helper is for returning the mems_allowed
> defined in the cpuset. Perhaps we could just use
> "cpuset_nodes_allowed(struct cgroup *)".
>
> Cheers,
> Longman

Thank you for the explanation and suggestion.

I have updated v4, which updates the functions to filter out nodes
rather than returning mems_allowed. In v3, the caller need to declare
a temp nodemask_t to store mems_allowed and then intersect with
lower-tier nodemask, which is unnecessarily increase the stack size.

The function name is updated as "cpuset_nodes_filter_allowed".
Do you think it is still better to use "cpuset_nodes_allowed"
when doing the filtering thing?

Thanks,
Bing