linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND v8 0/2] mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap

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Message-ID: <4b3e21e1-d322-49b6-bd72-598c15430c41@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:47:21 -0400
From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: hannes@...xchg.org, shakeel.butt@...ux.dev, david@...hat.com,
 ying.huang@...el.com, hughd@...gle.com, willy@...radead.org,
 yosryahmed@...gle.com, nphamcs@...il.com, chengming.zhou@...ux.dev,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND v8 0/2] mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a
 bitmap



On 24/08/2024 01:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:04:38 +0100 Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> Resending it, as the CC had "Huang, Ying" in one of the initial patches,
>> and it was rejected by git send-email because of the "," in name.
>>
>> The original series [1] was almost merged, but was dropped
>> due to a last minute bug [2]. Resending this with the fix for it,
>> by handling zeromap in the same way as swap_map and cluster_info in
>> enable_swap_info, holding swapon_mutex and si->lock, hence avoiding
>> a race condition between swapon and any point where the lock is held. 
>> This is the safest way.
>>
>> The series had already been reviewed and acked by all maintainers.
>>
>> Hoping that this attempt goes better than the initial one :)
> 
> Yup ;)
> 
> We're missing the [0/n] words here.  I pasted the text from the v1
> series.  Please check that it remains the truth, the whole truth and
> nothing but the truth.

Yes, Thanks! The cover letter remains the same.