linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/20] mm: zswap: cleanups

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Message-ID: <20240130122131.GA9406@google.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:21:31 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] mm: zswap: cleanups

On (24/01/30 08:16), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Hey Johannes,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 08:36:36PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Cleanups and maintenance items that accumulated while reviewing zswap
> > patches. Based on akpm/mm-unstable + the UAF fix I sent just now.
> 
> Patches 1 to 9 LGTM, thanks for the great cleanups!
> 
> I am less excited about patches 10 to 20 though. Don't get me wrong, I
> am all of logically ordering the code. However, it feels like in this
> case, we will introduce unnecessary layers in the git history in a lot

This also can complicate cherry-picking of patches to stable, prod, .etc