Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/vmscan: add a comment about MADV_FREE pages check in folio_check_dirty_writeback

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 10:18:49 EST


On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:34:52PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> The MADV_FREE pages check in folio_check_dirty_writeback is a bit hard to
> follow. Add a comment to make the code clear.
>
> Suggested-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index c77d5052f230..4a76be47bed1 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1436,6 +1436,9 @@ static void folio_check_dirty_writeback(struct folio *folio,
> /*
> * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
> * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them

While you touch this please add a period at the end of the above
sentence.

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>