linux-kernel - Re: cleanup the walk_page

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Message-ID: <20190824222654.GA28766@infradead.org>
Date:   Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:26:55 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Hellström <thomas@...pmail.org>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cleanup the walk_page_range interface

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 01:43:12PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > So what is the plan forward?  Probably a little late for 5.3,
> > so queue it up in -mm for 5.4 and deal with the conflicts in at least
> > hmm?  Queue it up in the hmm tree even if it doesn't 100% fit?
> 
> Did we make a decision on this? Due to travel & LPC I'd like to
> finalize the hmm tree next week.

I don't think we've made any decision.  I'd still love to see this
in hmm.git.  It has a minor conflict, but I can resend a rebased
version.