linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified

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Message-ID: <20200605081644.GS6857@suse.de>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:16:44 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 02:12:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, the commentary about "why is p.._alloc_track() in such a
> core header file, when it's only used by two special cases" is
> probably still true regardless of the 5-level fixup header.. I assume
> Mike didn't do those kinds of changes?

I'll try to move them to a separate header next week. The compile
testing I set up for this patch-set will certainly be helpful for that
:)


	Joerg