Re: [PATCH mm-new v3 1/1] mm/khugepaged: abort collapse scan on non-swap entries

From: Lorenzo Stoakes

Date: Tue Oct 14 2025 - 11:42:17 EST


On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 05:12:18PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Can we please take a step back and make sure we are not starting to do stuff
> differently than elswehere in the kernel, please?

The code already had the is_swap_pte() check in it, so this is not changing
anything, it's just avoiding confusion.

Even if this pattern exists elsewhere, I don't think propagating 'just have
to happen to know X, Y, Z' to understand it is a good idea.