Re: [RESEND v8 0/2] mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap
From: Usama Arif
Date: Sat Aug 24 2024 - 14:47:36 EST
On 24/08/2024 01:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:04:38 +0100 Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Resending it, as the CC had "Huang, Ying" in one of the initial patches,
>> and it was rejected by git send-email because of the "," in name.
>>
>> The original series [1] was almost merged, but was dropped
>> due to a last minute bug [2]. Resending this with the fix for it,
>> by handling zeromap in the same way as swap_map and cluster_info in
>> enable_swap_info, holding swapon_mutex and si->lock, hence avoiding
>> a race condition between swapon and any point where the lock is held.
>> This is the safest way.
>>
>> The series had already been reviewed and acked by all maintainers.
>>
>> Hoping that this attempt goes better than the initial one :)
>
> Yup ;)
>
> We're missing the [0/n] words here. I pasted the text from the v1
> series. Please check that it remains the truth, the whole truth and
> nothing but the truth.
Yes, Thanks! The cover letter remains the same.