Re: [PATCH v14 2/6] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 08:54:24 EST


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:46:26PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In order to enable the use of the zone from the list manipulator functions
> I will need access to the zone pointer. As it turns out most of the
> accessors were always just being directly passed &zone->free_area[order]
> anyway so it would make sense to just fold that into the function itself
> and pass the zone and order as arguments instead of the free area.
>
> In order to be able to reference the zone we need to move the declaration
> of the functions down so that we have the zone defined before we define the
> list manipulation functions. Since the functions are only used in the file
> mm/page_alloc.c we can just move them there to reduce noise in the header.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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