Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm: improve large folio readahead and alignment for exec memory

Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-10T11:58:07Z

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Usama Arif wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 02/04/2026 19:08, Usama Arif wrote:
> > > v2 -> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260320140315.979307-1-usama.arif@linux.dev/
> > > - Take into account READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS for elf alignment by aligning
> > > to HPAGE_PMD_SIZE limited to 2M (Rui)
> > > - Reviewed-by tags for patch 1 from Kiryl and Jan
> > > - Remove preferred_exec_order() (Jan)
> > > - Change ra->order to HPAGE_PMD_ORDER if vma_pages(vma) >= HPAGE_PMD_NR
> > > otherwise use exec_folio_order() with gfp &= ~__GFP_RECLAIM for
> > > do_sync_mmap_readahead().
> > > - Change exec_folio_order() to return 2M (cont-pte size) for 64K base
> > > page size for arm64.
> > > - remove bprm->file NULL check (Matthew)
> > > - Change filp to file (Matthew)
> > > - Improve checking of p_vaddr and p_vaddr (Rui and Matthew)
> > >
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Just wanted to check if there was any feedback/review on the latest
> > revision?
>
> It's -rc7, this is definitely something for next cycle :)
>
> On my part, my upstream bandwidth has drastically reduced, and review is
> probably going to have to be a hobbyist thing at least for now.
>
> Also, not to be mean but:
>
> $ git log -E -i --grep "(Reviewed|Acked)-by: Usama Arif" --oneline | wc -l
> 21
>
> So... :)
>
> Review in mm is very lop-sided, let's try to balance it out a bit!
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Thanks, Lorenzo

(Note that we're in a 'quiet period' from here until -rc1 of next cycle and
won't be taking anything new until then. We plan to do this from around rc5 or
rc6 of each cycle in future).