Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: reclaim isolated folios if PTE restart fails

[Gregory Price]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 05:42:43PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 9/16/26 17:37, Gregory Price wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 05:24:43PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >> On 9/16/26 17:19, Gregory Price wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You missed this part:
> >>>
> >>> "I'm trying to be careful about not causing a bigger maintenance burden"
> >>>
> >>> I wouldn't do that to you :]
> >>
> >> I just wanted to make it very clear that I don't need another schlopped gigantic
> >> patch series in my inbox that I'll mostly have to ignore because it's
> >> un-reviewable ;)
> >>
> > 
> > I would never :]
> > 
> > But *motions generally at madvise* if this isn't schlop i don't know
> > what is lol.
> 
> Just to be clear, I enjoy any cleanups in that area which are well written (and
> your track record shows that you do exceptional work ;) ).
> 
> I would also enjoy a properly stubbed page allocator as well as I envisioned ...
> as long as it's not something schlopped together and rushed out.
> 
> ... of course you would never work-slop me/us like that! :)
> 

It's fundamentally a bootstrapping problem.

Regardless of whether an LLM wrote the tests for page_alloc in its
current form - it's going to be schloppy, because the code itself was
never written to be testable in the first place.

That's the actual problem we're all dancing around.

~Gregory