linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: document the reserve map/region tracking routines

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Message-ID: <55653A6C.3060707@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 20:30:52 -0700
From:	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: document the reserve map/region tracking
 routines

On 05/26/2015 04:09 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2015 14:27:10 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a documentation only patch and does not modify any code.
>> Descriptions of the routines used for reserve map/region tracking
>> are added.
>
> Confused.  This adds comments which are similar to the ones which were
> added by
> mm-hugetlb-compute-return-the-number-of-regions-added-by-region_add-v2.patch
> and
> mm-hugetlb-handle-races-in-alloc_huge_page-and-hugetlb_reserve_pages-v2.patch.
> But the comments are a bit different.  And this patch madly conflicts
> with the two abovementioned patches.
>
> Maybe the thing to do is to start again, with a three-patch series:
>
> mm-hugetlb-document-the-reserve-map-region-tracking-routines.patch
> mm-hugetlb-compute-return-the-number-of-regions-added-by-region_add-v3.patch
> mm-hugetlb-handle-races-in-alloc_huge_page-and-hugetlb_reserve_pages-v3.patch
>
> while resolving the differences in the new code comments?
>

Sorry for the confusion.  Naoya and Davidlohr suggested changes to
the documentation and code.  One suggestion was to create a separate
documentation only patch.


I will create a new series as you suggest above.

-- 
Mike Kravetz
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