Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:44:45 +0900
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/compaction: fix invalid free_pfn and
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/14/2015 04:26 PM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >2015-12-14 19:07 GMT+09:00 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>:
> >>On 12/14/2015 06:02 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >>Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> >>
> >>Note that until now in compaction we've used basically an open-coded
> >>round_down(), and ALIGN() for rounding up. You introduce a first use of
> >>round_down(), and it would be nice to standardize on round_down() and
> >>round_up() everywhere. I think it's more obvious than open-coding and
> >>ALIGN() (which doesn't tell the reader if it's aligning up or down).
> >>Hopefully they really do the same thing and there are no caveats...
> >
> >Okay. Will send another patch for this clean-up on next spin.
> 
> Great, I didn't mean that the cleanup is needed right now, but
> whether we agree on an idiom to use whenever doing any changes from
> now on.

Okay.

> Maybe it would be best to add some defines in the top of
> compaction.c that would also hide away the repeated
> pageblock_nr_pages everywhere? Something like:
> 
> #define pageblock_start(pfn) round_down(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages)
> #define pageblock_end(pfn) round_up((pfn)+1, pageblock_nr_pages)

Quick grep shows that there are much more places this new define or
some variant can be used. It would be good clean-up. I will try it
separately.

Thanks.
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