Re: cleanup the walk_page_range interface

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Aug 26 2019 - 21:34:24 EST


On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 03:26:55PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 01:43:12PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > So what is the plan forward? Probably a little late for 5.3,
> > > so queue it up in -mm for 5.4 and deal with the conflicts in at least
> > > hmm? Queue it up in the hmm tree even if it doesn't 100% fit?
> >
> > Did we make a decision on this? Due to travel & LPC I'd like to
> > finalize the hmm tree next week.
>
> I don't think we've made any decision. I'd still love to see this
> in hmm.git. It has a minor conflict, but I can resend a rebased
> version.

I'm looking at this.. The hmm conflict is easy enough to fix.

But the compile conflict with these two patches in -mm requires some
action from Andrew:

commit 027b9b8fd9ee3be6b7440462102ec03a2d593213
Author: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 25 11:49:27 2019 +1000

mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT

commit f227453a14cadd4727dd159782531d617f257001
Author: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 25 11:49:27 2019 +1000

mm: introduce MADV_COLD

Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.

I'm inclined to suggest you send this series in the 2nd half of the
merge window after this MADV stuff lands for least disruption?

Thanks,
Jason