Re: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: bypass THP tuneables for huge pfnmap mappings

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 06:19:30PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 9/7/26 18:15, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 06:08:31PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> That's a good idea! Much better thanks.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, it's an annoying one as kinda want to say 'file-backed VMA' but I think
> >>> you're right vma_xxx_file() -> vma_file_xxx() is better.
> >>>
> >>> Andrew - could you fix that up in place?
> >>>
> >>> Obviously if there's further feedback I can respin as well.
> >>
> >> Just as a general note I really hate these in-place updates.
> >>
> >> For a reviewer perspective (like me stumbling over this) this is just a mess.
> >>
> >> Resending with b4 is as easy as it gets.
> >
> > Ack, you are right to be honest, and I do empathise obviously.
> >
> > I will respin these in future!
> >
> > Let me know if you want me to respin this to make life a bit easier?
>
> Sorry for being grumpy. With 1500 unread mails, playing Hensel and searching for
> breadcrumbs in my inbox is hard :D

Tsk, that's not grumpy, you're speaking to the king of grumpiness :P

>
> (I did see some reply from Zi to an mm-unstable patch, but not sure if that was
> applied in the end -- or whether Andrew fixed up any of that)
>
> I just saw my reply to my other mail, maybe a v2 would be best :)

Sure no problem will respin.

I will probably respin the RCU page table series too to wrap Kiryl's changes
into it just to make life easier there too!

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

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Cheers, Lorenzo