Re: [PATCH V5 0/2] mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE

[Garg, Shivank]

On 1/19/2026 1:52 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Please tolerate a little whining about the timeliess here.  We're at
> -rc6, v4 was added to mm.git over a month ago, had quite a lot of
> review, this is very close to being moved into the mm-stable branch and now
> we get v5.  Argh.
> 
I sincerely apologize for this.

I had this doubt on sending an incremental patch or V5:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7a42515f-ae57-4f4d-831c-87689930a797@xxxxxxx


>> V5:
>> - In patch 2/2, Simplify dirty writeback retry logic (David)
> Are you sure this is the only change?  It looks like a lot for a
> simplification and I'm wondering if we should retain the v4 series and
> defer a simplification for separate consideration during the next
> cycle.

Yes, patch 1/2 is unchanged and patch 2/2 is the only change. 
The diff looks larger due to code movement but logic is actually simpler now.

I completely understand if you prefer to keep V4 and defer this 
refactoring. I'm sorry for creating this late-cycle churn. Please let me 
know what you'd prefer and I'll follow your guidance.
Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
Shivank