linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm/munlock: rework of mlock+munlock page handling

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Date:   Sun, 6 Feb 2022 21:38:25 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm/munlock: rework of mlock+munlock page handling

On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 01:27:41PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Here it is based on 5.17-rc2, applies also to -rc3, almost cleanly to
> mmotm 2022-02-03-21-58 (needs two easy fixups in mm/huge_memory.c); but
> likely to conflict (I hope not fundamentally) with several concurrent
> large patchsets.

Most of this patchset hasn't arrived here yet, but I would be
_delighted_ to rebase the folio conversion on top of this.  What
convoluted code it is!  I am so glad you've cleaned this up; I was
dreading doing the rest of the mlock file.