mm/sparse-vmemmap: refactor core of vmemmap_populate_basepages() to helper
authorJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:59:27 +0000 (09:59 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:59:27 +0000 (09:59 +1100)
commit333294a34d418319a1ed6e15a5a6d70445ddb0c6
tree3982db08d4463808b5a39cd020c9e1c62b58fbb9
parent4aaa4c153af0766d19cbc243697d0673b507b562
mm/sparse-vmemmap: refactor core of vmemmap_populate_basepages() to helper

In preparation for describing a memmap with compound pages, move the
actual pte population logic into a separate function
vmemmap_populate_address() and have vmemmap_populate_basepages() walk
through all base pages it needs to populate.

While doing that, change the helper to use a pte_t* as return value,
rather than an hardcoded errno of 0 or -ENOMEM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220223194807.12070-3-joao.m.martins@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c