From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "Brendan Jackman" <jackmanb@google.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Clark Williams" <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
"Ridong Chen" <ridong.chen@linux.dev>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<cgroups@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] cgroup/cpuset: update some comments about the page allocator
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:16:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DJYQXZ52392V.3ALH1EFW0CXMB@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714-spin-trylock-followup-v2-2-3c20ed032b14@google.com>
On Tue Jul 14, 2026 at 5:32 AM EDT, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> These comments describing the page allocator are out of date:
>
> - __alloc_pages() is no longer a public API and has no business being
> described outside of mm/.
>
> - The `wait` variable is gone.
>
> It may be out of date for other reasons too but this patch is just
> fixing the issues that stood out.
>
> To fix it:
>
> - Instead of referring to a specific function, instead to "the page
> allocator"
>
> - Completely drop out-of-date details of that function's internal
> behaviour, since they were irrelevant anyway.
>
> Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DJP11T5V7BDW.2FZZZ8R6LOY4I@nvidia.com/
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 13 +++++--------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Thank you for updating the doc.
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-15 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-14 9:31 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups Brendan Jackman
2026-07-14 9:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/page_alloc: rename FPI_TRYLOCK -> FPI_NOLOCK Brendan Jackman
2026-07-15 1:15 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-14 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] cgroup/cpuset: update some comments about the page allocator Brendan Jackman
2026-07-15 1:16 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-07-14 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/page_alloc: fixup alloc_pages_nolock_noprof() comment Brendan Jackman
2026-07-15 1:19 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-14 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/page_alloc: remove a VM_BUG_ON() Brendan Jackman
2026-07-15 1:19 ` Zi Yan
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