From 4e096ae1801e24b338e02715c65c3ffa8883ba5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 01:11:01 +0100 Subject: mm: convert migrate_pages() to work on folios Almost all of the callers & implementors of migrate_pages() were already converted to use folios. compaction_alloc() & compaction_free() are trivial to convert a part of this patch and not worth splitting out. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230513001101.276972-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/mm') diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst index 313dce18893e..e35af7805be5 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst @@ -73,14 +73,13 @@ In kernel use of migrate_pages() It also prevents the swapper or other scans from encountering the page. -2. We need to have a function of type new_page_t that can be +2. We need to have a function of type new_folio_t that can be passed to migrate_pages(). This function should figure out - how to allocate the correct new page given the old page. + how to allocate the correct new folio given the old folio. 3. The migrate_pages() function is called which attempts to do the migration. It will call the function to allocate - the new page for each page that is considered for - moving. + the new folio for each folio that is considered for moving. How migrate_pages() works ========================= -- cgit