linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mmotm v2] mm: delete _

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Message-ID: <8c73ec79-d580-81a4-b8d4-a06a48a35f7a@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 09:41:18 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm v2] mm: delete __ClearPageWaiters()

On 04.03.22 22:25, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The PG_waiters bit is not included in PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE, and
> vmscan.c's free_unref_page_list() callers rely on that not to generate
> bad_page() alerts.  So __page_cache_release(), put_pages_list() and
> release_pages() (and presumably copy-and-pasted free_zone_device_page())
> are redundant and misleading to make a special point of clearing it (as
> the "__" implies, it could only safely be used on the freeing path).
> 
> Delete __ClearPageWaiters().  Remark on this in one of the "possible"
> comments in folio_wake_bit(), and delete the superfluous comments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>

Thanks

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb