Re: [PATCH v1] mm: migrate: don't rely on PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 28-01-19 22:09:14, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 28.01.19 21:19, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > David, could you reformulate the changelog accordingly please? My ack
> > still holds.
> 
> You mean reformulating + resending for stable kernels only?

I would merge your patch even if it doesn't fix any real problem _now_.
If for not other reasons it makes the code less subtle because we no
longer depend on this crazy __PageMovable is special. If the movable
flag is supposed to be synchronized with the page lock then do not do
tricks and make code more robust because the next time somebody would
like to fix up the current semantic he might reintroduce the bug easily.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs