[PATCH 03/12] mm/pagewalk: Skip dax pages in pagewalk

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Thu Jun 5 00:49:27 PDT 2025


On 05.06.25 09:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 06:59:09PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> +/* return normal pages backed by the page allocator */
>> +static inline struct page *vm_normal_gfp_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> +					     unsigned long addr, pmd_t pmd)
>> +{
>> +	struct page *page = vm_normal_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
>> +
>> +	if (!is_devdax_page(page) && !is_fsdax_page(page))
>> +		return page;
>> +	return NULL;
> 
> If you go for this make it more straight forward by having the
> normal path in the main flow:
> 
> 	if (is_devdax_page(page) || is_fsdax_page(page))
> 		return NULL;
> 	return page;

+1

But I'd defer introducing that for now if avoidable. I find the naming 
rather ... suboptimal :)

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb




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