Re: mmotm woes, mainly compaction

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 04/12/2016 09:18 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 1. Fix crash in release_pages() from compact_zone() from kcompactd_do_work():
>     kcompactd needs to INIT_LIST_HEAD on the new freepages_held list.

Hmm, right. I didn't notice the new call site added by one series when 
rebasing the other series :/

> 4. Added VM_BUG_ONs to assert freepages_held is empty, matching those on
>     the other lists - though they're getting to look rather too much now.

I think the easiest thing to do for now is to drop from mmotm:
mm-compaction-direct-freepage-allocation-for-async-direct-compaction.patch
As Mel and Joonsoo didn't like it in the current state anyway.

> 6. Remove unused bool success from kcompactd_do_work().

That leaves just this part, which didn't fit anywhere else. I guess can 
just fold it to upcoming kcompactd patches?

Thanks for organizing my morning today, Hugh :)