Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: move internal mempolicy APIs to new internal header

[Brendan Jackman]

On Thu Jul 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> On 7/16/26 16:30, Brendan Jackman wrote:
>> There are no external users for this surface, reduce the scope.
>> 
>> Ulterior motive: a later patch will add an alloc_flags arg to some parts
>> of this.
>> 
>> Note it might seem like this could just go in internal.h, since it's
>> pretty small, but actually it will eventually need to import
>> page_alloc.h, we don't want to import that from internal.h so best to
>> proactively created this header now.
>
> Hmm, maybe it could just go to page_alloc.h then? After all this is just
> bunch of internal page allocation functions, which just take the mempolicy
> pointer?

That would work AFAICS, but I think it's quite tidy that, currently, all
functions declared in page_alloc.h are defined in page_alloc.c. This
would break that.

If you're certain you don't care about that then I could live with using
page_alloc.h.