linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] mm/thp: fix page_vma_mapped

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Date:   Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Wang Yugui <wangyugui@...-tech.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Jue Wang <juew@...gle.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] mm/thp: fix page_vma_mapped_walk() if huge page
 mapped by ptes

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 02:13:21PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > Merged various other minor fixes and cleanups into page_vma_mapped_walk()
> > as I worked on it: which I find much easier to enumerate here than to
> > prise apart into separate commits.
> 
> But it makes it harder to review...
> 
> I tried to review it and superficially it looks good, but it has to be
> split into bunch of patches.

I had hoped to avoid that.  Okay, I'll try bisecting it into a
preliminary cleanup patch then the bugfix patch, and see if that
looks reviewable; divide it up further if not.  But my idea of
what's reviewable may differ.

Hugh