Re: [PATCH mm-new v4 4/6] mm: add folio_is_lazyfree helper

From: Vernon Yang

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 23:22:21 EST


On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
<david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/11/26 14:41, Lance Yang wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2026/1/11 20:19, Vernon Yang wrote:
> >> Add folio_is_lazyfree() function to identify lazy-free folios to improve
> >> code readability.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> include/linux/mm_inline.h | 5 +++++
> >> mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
> >> mm/vmscan.c | 5 ++---
> >> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> >> index fa2d6ba811b5..65a4ae52d915 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> >> @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ static inline int page_is_file_lru(struct page *page)
> >> return folio_is_file_lru(page_folio(page));
> >> }
> >>
> >> +static inline int folio_is_lazyfree(const struct folio *folio)
> >> +{
> >
> > It's 2026, could we use bool instead of int?
> >
> > Yeah, I see folio_is_file_lru() uses int but that's legacy ...
>
> Right, and why not call the function folio_test_lazyfree() and move it
> to page-flags.h?

LGTM, I will do it in the next version.