Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: handle vma with unmovable pages mapped correctly in mbind

[Yang Shi]

On 6/19/19 1:18 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 6/18/19 7:06 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
> > The BUG_ON was removed by commit
> > d44d363f65780f2ac2ec672164555af54896d40d ("mm: don't assume anonymous
> > pages have SwapBacked flag") since 4.12.
> Perhaps that commit should be sent to stable@ ? Although with
> VM_BUG_ON() this is less critical than plain BUG_ON().

I don't think we have to. I agree it is less critical, VM_DEBUG should 
be not enabled for production environment.

And, it doesn't actually break anything since split_huge_page would just 
return error, and those unmovable pages are silently ignored by isolate.