Re: [PATCH 7.2 v2 12/12] selftests/mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS from comments in guard-regions
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 13:42:47 EST
On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 12:45:18PM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2026, at 7:09, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > On 4/14/26 00:28, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >> That sounds like more code that was added for RO_THP and should be
> >> deleted? See commit e6be37b2e7bd
> >
> > Sounds like something to implement on top of this patch set?
> >
> > But with the added dirty checks in patch #2, maybe it's trivial to do it
> > in this patchset already.
>
> Can you two elaborate? The code from commit e6be37b2e7bd is moved around
> and replaced by functions like __thp_vma_allowable_orders().
What I was trying to say is that this restriction was added because
of ROTHP. Since we're getting rid of ROTHP, we can remove this
restriction. No matter where the code has now migrated to.