Re: [PATCHv2 08/11] dmapool: consolidate page initialization

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Dec 23 2022 - 11:36:25 EST


> + page->in_use = 0;
> + page->offset = 0;

This move makes total sense to me.

> return NULL;
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
> -
> - list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list);
> + pool_initialise_page(pool, page);

.. but this now moves all of pool_initialise_page inside the
pool->lock critical section. Is that really a good idea?