linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] A few cleanup and fixup patches for vmscan

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <713e469c-770c-0867-0dc2-cc7e8ba05c05@huawei.com>
Date:   Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:38:08 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <ying.huang@...el.com>, <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        <hch@...radead.org>, <willy@...radead.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] A few cleanup and fixup patches for vmscan

On 2022/4/9 17:33, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> This series contains a few patches to remove obsolete comment, introduce
> helper to remove duplicated code and so no. Also we take all base pages
> of THP into account in rare race condition. More details can be found in
> the respective changelogs. Thanks!

Very Sorry about it! There is some invalid address in my cc list. So I failed
to send them together twice. Sorry for making noise. :(

> 
> ---
> v2:
>   patch 1/9: drop code change and add a comment about MADV_FREE
>   patch 2/9: simplify the code further and change to goto keep_locked
>   patch 3/9: use folio, remove unneeded inline and break craze long lines
>   patch 5/9: activate swap-backed executable folios after first usage too
>   patch 9/9: new cleanup patch splitted from 5/9
>   Many thanks Huang Ying, Matthew Wilcox, Christoph Hellwig, Muchun Song
>   for review!
> ---
> Miaohe Lin (9):
>   mm/vmscan: add a comment about MADV_FREE pages check in
>     folio_check_dirty_writeback
>   mm/vmscan: remove unneeded can_split_huge_page check
>   mm/vmscan: introduce helper function reclaim_page_list()
>   mm/vmscan: save a bit of stack space in shrink_lruvec
>   mm/vmscan: activate swap-backed executable folios after first usage
>   mm/vmscan: take all base pages of THP into account when race with
>     speculative reference
>   mm/vmscan: take min_slab_pages into account when try to call
>     shrink_node
>   mm/vmscan: remove obsolete comment in kswapd_run
>   mm/vmscan: use helper folio_is_file_lru()
> 
>  mm/vmscan.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>