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Message-ID: <7457B947-0099-4388-80AC-0C933C7A0531@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:47:46 -0400
From:   Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/32] mm/page_vma_mapped: delete bogosity in
 page_vma_mapped_walk()

On 8 Jun 2023, at 21:12, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Revert commit a7a69d8ba88d ("mm/thp: another PVMW_SYNC fix in
> page_vma_mapped_walk()"): I was proud of that "Aha!" commit at the time,
> but in revisiting page_vma_mapped_walk() for pte_offset_map() failure,
> that block raised a doubt: and it now seems utterly bogus.  The prior
> map_pte() has taken ptl unconditionally when PVMW_SYNC: I must have
> forgotten that when making the change.  It did no harm, but could not
> have fixed a BUG or WARN, and is hard to reconcile with coming changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

LGTM. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>

--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi

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