linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm/huge_memory: remove stale NUMA hinting comment from follow_trans_huge

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Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:34:21 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        liubo <liubo254@...wei.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm/huge_memory: remove stale NUMA hinting comment
 from follow_trans_huge_pmd()

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 02:48:42PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> That comment for pmd_protnone() was added in commit 2b4847e73004
> ("mm: numa: serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration"), which
> noted:
> 
> 	THP does not unmap pages due to a lack of support for migration
> 	entries at a PMD level.  This allows races with get_user_pages
> 
> Nowadays, we do have PMD migration entries, so the comment no longer
> applies. Let's drop it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs