linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] mm/ksm: recover from memory failure on KSM page by migrating to healthy duplicate

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Message-ID: <04f6f978-1551-4429-8f3d-a9eaf331d3a7@web.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:01:00 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@...inos.cn>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>,
 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>, Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Cc: Longlong Xia <xialonglong2025@....com>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, xu xin <xu.xin16@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] mm/ksm: recover from memory failure on KSM page by
 migrating to healthy duplicate

> When a hardware memory error occurs on a KSM page, the current
> behavior is to kill all processes mapping that page. This can
…

* The word wrapping can be improved another bit, can't it?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17#n658

* How relevant is such a cover letter for a single patch?

* Is there a need to extend change descriptions at other places?


Regards,
Markus