Re: [PATCH v1] mm: hwpoison: adjust for new thp refcounting

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Fri Nov 06 2015 - 01:48:53 EST


On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:31:49AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 01:11 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > In the new refcounting, we no longer use tail->_mapcount to keep tail's
> > refcount, and thereby we can simplify get_hwpoison_page() and remove
> > put_hwpoison_page() (by replacing with put_page()).
>
> This is confusing for the reader (and some static analysis tools): this adds
> put_page()s without corresponding get_page()s.
>
> Could we instead macro put_hwpoison_page() as put_page() for the sake of readability?

OK, I'll do this.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi--
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