Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm: simplify free_highmem_page() and free_reserved_page()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 07:29:43 EST


On 27.01.21 12:51, Oscar Salvador wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:21:13PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
adjust_managed_page_count() as called by free_reserved_page() properly
handles pages in a highmem zone, so we can reuse it for
free_highmem_page().

We can now get rid of totalhigh_pages_inc() and simplify
free_reserved_page().

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

+#define free_highmem_page(page) free_reserved_page(page)

Should we place that under #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM to make clear
that it is only used on that config?
Maybe the #ifdefery ugliness does not pay off.

Yeah, most probably not worth it.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb