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

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 10:20:23 -0800 (PST)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        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, 6 Feb 2022, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

That's a very generous offer: thank you.  I'd been looking at it
the other way round, afraid that it would be getting in your way:
but now think you're right, that the cleanup there will help your
work.

I had found mm/mlock.c unexpectedly difficult to deal with when
doing shmem huge pages, and IIRC Kirill had the same experience.

Hugh