linux-kernel - Re: cleanup the walk_page

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:23:57 +0100
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Thomas Hellström <thomas@...pmail.org>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.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 28/08/2019 00:36, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 04:34:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:34:13 +0000 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 03:26:55PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at this.. The hmm conflict is easy enough to fix.
>>>
>>> But the compile conflict with these two patches in -mm requires some
>>> action from Andrew:
>>>
>>> commit 027b9b8fd9ee3be6b7440462102ec03a2d593213
>>> Author: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
>>> Date:   Sun Aug 25 11:49:27 2019 +1000
>>>
>>>     mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT
>>>
>>> commit f227453a14cadd4727dd159782531d617f257001
>>> Author: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
>>> Date:   Sun Aug 25 11:49:27 2019 +1000
>>>
>>>     mm: introduce MADV_COLD
>>>     
>>>     Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to suggest you send this series in the 2nd half of the
>>> merge window after this MADV stuff lands for least disruption? 
>>
>> Just merge it, I'll figure it out.  Probably by staging Minchan's
>> patches after linux-next.
> 
> Okay, I'll get it on a branch and merge it toward hmm.git tomorrow
> 
> Steven, do you need the branch as well for your patch series? Let me know

Since my series is (mostly) just refactoring I'm planning on rebasing it
after -rc1 and aim for v5.4 - I don't really have the time just now to
do that.

But please keep me in the loop because it'll reduce the surprises when I
do do the rebase.

Thanks,

Steve