Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: Extract non-swap page handling to do_non_swap_page()
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 08:20:59 EST
On 7/27/26 14:10, Hongfu Li wrote:
>>> mm/memory.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>> 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
>>> index ae521baa8c84..50d8e92aef91 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memory.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memory.c
>>> @@ -4815,6 +4815,74 @@ static void check_swap_exclusive(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t entry,
>>> } while (--nr_pages);
>>> }
>>>
>>> +static vm_fault_t do_non_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>>
>> We're handling softleaf entries that are not swap entries.
>>
>> do_nonswap_softleaf() or sth like that would be better than talking about "page"
>> if there is not even a page.
>>
>> But actually it should be the other way around:
>>
>> do_softleaf_entry() [currently do_swap_page]
>> ... non-swap entries
>> do_swap_entry()
>>
>> Or sth like that. Then, maybe in the future, we can just move do_swap_entry()
>> out of memory.c
>>
>> So we're factoring the wrong thing out in this patch.
>
> Thank you very much for the detailed review, your analysis makes perfect sense to me.
>
> I'm glad to send out v3 shortly for your further review, with
> do_non_swap_page renamed to do_nonswap_softleaf.
Read again, that's not what I meant.
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Cheers,
David