linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 11/11] mm: remove SWAP

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Message-ID: <20170306021823.GF8779@bbox>
Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:18:23 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kernel-team@....com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 11/11] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 06:34:15PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 03/02/2017 12:09 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > There is no user for it. Remove it.
> 
> Last patches in the series prepared ground for this removal. The
> entire series looks pretty straight forward. As it does not change

Thanks.

> any functionality, wondering what kind of tests this should go
> through to look for any potential problems.

I don't think it can change something severe, either but one thing
I want to check is handling of mlocked pages part so I will do
some test for that.

Thanks for the review, Anshuman!