linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: page_alloc: remove remnants of unlocked migratetype updates

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Message-ID: <1dccc5a4-76fd-453c-86e5-979fa0d5ba9c@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:01:19 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: page_alloc: remove remnants of unlocked
 migratetype updates

On 2/25/25 01:08, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The freelist hygiene patches made migratetype accesses fully protected
> under the zone->lock. Remove remnants of handling the race conditions
> that existed before from the MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>