On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:47:54AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

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* mm/slub: Convert print_page_info() to print_slab_info()
Do we really need to explicitly convert slab_folio()'s result to (struct folio *)?

Unfortunately yes, as long as folio_flags() don't take const struct folio *,
which will need some yak shaving.

In case anyone's interested ...

folio_flags calls VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS() which would need its second
argument to be const.

That means dump_page() needs to take a const struct page, which
means __dump_page() needs its argument to be const.

That calls ...

is_migrate_cma_page()
page_mapping()
page_mapcount()
page_ref_count()
page_to_pgoff()
page_to_pfn()
hpage_pincount_available()
head_compound_mapcount()
head_compound_pincount()
compound_order()
PageKsm()
PageAnon()
PageCompound()

... and at that point, I ran out of motivation to track down some parts
of this tarbaby that could be fixed.  I did do:

    mm: constify page_count and page_ref_count
    mm: constify get_pfnblock_flags_mask and get_pfnblock_migratetype
    mm: make compound_head const-preserving
    mm/page_owner: constify dump_page_owner

so some of those are already done.  But a lot of them just need to be
done at the same time.  For example, page_mapping() calls
folio_mapping() which calls folio_test_slab() which calls folio_flags(),
so dump_page() and page_mapping() need to be done at the same time.

One bit that could be broken off easily (I think ...) is PageTransTail()
PageTail(), PageCompound(), PageHuge(), page_to_pgoff() and
page_to_index().  One wrinkle is needed a temporary
TESTPAGEFLAGS_FALSE_CONST.  But I haven't tried it yet.