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From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
To: "Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	 Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] mm/khugepaged: fix outdated comments
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:38:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anw_Fh7bBTPmmNQ-@pedro-suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811-khugepaged_pte_refactor-v4-4-ddac39d61c4a@linux.dev>

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 06:48:36AM -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote:
> Fix comment in collapse_scan_pmd() that still described the old
> folio_mapcount() > folio_ref_count() check and a "512" false-positive
> scenario. The code now uses folio_expected_ref_count() != folio_ref_count()
> which doesn't suffer from the same limitation.
> 
> Fix comment in collapse_huge_page() that referenced ptep_clear_flush,
> when the code actually uses pmdp_collapse_flush.
> 
> Fix comment in __collapse_huge_page_swapin() that referenced the old
> function name khugepaged_scan_pmd, now collapse_scan_pmd.
> 
> Also clean up some simple typos and stale terminology (mmap_sem ->
> mmap_lock, PG_lock -> folio lock, page -> folio, grammar).
> 
> We also clarify a comment regarding where the max_ptes_none check is
> deferred to in mthp_collapse() from the original collapse_scan_pmd check.
> 
> Update all comments that references a function to include parentheses.
> 
> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
> Assisted-by: Cursor(claude-sonnet-4):4.6
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@linux.dev>

Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>

-- 
Pedro

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11 12:48 [PATCH v4 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] mm/khugepaged: refactor per-scan state clearing into collapse_control_init_scan() Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-12  9:23   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] mm/khugepaged: extract reference check into folio_pte_referenced() helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 15:47   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-11 20:45   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:19   ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-12  9:25   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] mm/khugepaged: introduce a count_collapse_event() helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:45   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:36   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] mm/khugepaged: fix outdated comments Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:48   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:38   ` Pedro Falcato [this message]
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] mm/khugepaged: Refactor the PTE state checks into a helper Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-12  2:04   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  8:40   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12  9:51     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 10:06       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 10:50   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:54   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12  9:21   ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-12 10:51   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] mm: Documentation: clarify where the mTHP stats live Nico Pache (Red Hat)
2026-08-11 20:54   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-12 10:52   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-11 18:23 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] mm/khugepaged: several cleanups Andrew Morton
2026-08-11 18:55   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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