linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: remove boolean output parameters from folio_pte_batch

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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 11:16:57 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: remove boolean output parameters from
 folio_pte_batch_ext()

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 12:49:26PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Instead, let's just allow for specifying through flags whether we want
> to have bits merged into the original PTE.
> 
> For the madvise() case, simplify by having only a single parameter for
> merging young+dirty. For madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() merging the
> dirty bit is not required, but also not harmful. This code is not that
> performance critical after all to really force all micro-optimizations.
> 
> As we now have two pte_t * parameters, use PageTable() to make sure we
> are actually given a pointer at a copy of the PTE, not a pointer into
> an actual page table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

Although I think it'd be nice to have a comment pointing out why dirty-young bites
go together:

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

 

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Oscar Salvador
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