linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications

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Message-Id: <20250312164750.59215-1-sj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:47:46 -0700
From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <howlett@...il.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications

Cleanup madvise entry level code for cleaner request validations and
classifications.

Note that this series was a part of another one[1], and separated to
this one following a reviewer's nice comment[2].

Changes from the original series
(https://lore.kernel.org/20250310172318.653630-1-sj@kernel.org)
- Separate from the tlb flushes batching part
- Collect Reviewed-by: tags from Lorenzo
- Fix typos and wordsmith commit messages and comments
- Rebase on latest mm-unstable

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250310172318.653630-1-sj@kernel.org
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/0f90d56e-5960-4478-803e-1054696c0cde@lucifer.local

SeongJae Park (4):
  mm/madvise: use is_memory_failure() from madvise_do_behavior()
  mm/madvise: split out populate behavior check logic
  mm/madvise: deduplicate madvise_do_behavior() skip case handlings
  mm/madvise: remove len parameter of madvise_do_behavior()

 mm/madvise.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)


base-commit: 733c75c2264b9de72a463f731507e674a32ff094
-- 
2.39.5