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

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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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