linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: return the number of pages successfully paged out

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Message-ID: <Y8dQFvvU99brPFi9@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:49:10 -0800
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: return the number of pages successfully paged out

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 12:58:09AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 04:35:00PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Yes, both are correct in my view since pageout is initiated after
> > unmapping the page from page table and think that's better wording
> > to be in description. Let me use the explanation in the description
> > at next spin. Thanks.
> 
> For the next spin, you'll want to do it against mm-unstable as
> deactivate_page() is now folio_deactivate().

I was curious what branch I need to use baseline for creating a patch
since I saw multiple branches recent mm/

Thanks for the hint. Sure, will do.