From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>, Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: Fix outdated comment about freeing subpages in __folio_split
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:42:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17a3bc38-0d97-4316-b2fb-02a91202c504@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGsJ_4wn=o5ZCNPGguCCk=19iYZr1V9Jup0NdRUKXySsKfD_4g@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/26/26 22:42, Barry Song wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
> <david@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/23/26 05:49, Barry Song (Xiaomi) wrote:
>>> The comment appears to be outdated. First, add_to_swap() no longer
>>> exists after Kairui’s commit b487a2da3575 ("mm, swap: simplify folio
>>> swap allocation"). Second, partially zapped folios are now always
>>> split before folio_alloc_swap() to avoid extra I/O, following Ryan’s
>>> commit 5ed890ce5147 ("mm: vmscan: avoid split during
>>> shrink_folio_list()").
>>
>> Not necessarily. We have some scenarios where we have partially-mapped folios
>> not detected as such as of today (with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT).
>
> Thanks, david! would it make more sense to add “when
> CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT is enabled” at the end of the
> sentence?
Better to phrase it in a way that doesn't even require these details :)
Do we even need this detail in the patch description?
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-27 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-23 3:49 [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: Fix outdated comment about freeing subpages in __folio_split Barry Song (Xiaomi)
2026-04-23 12:36 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-26 20:42 ` Barry Song
2026-04-27 7:42 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-04-28 10:05 ` Barry Song
2026-04-28 10:08 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-28 10:32 ` Barry Song
2026-04-28 13:01 ` Andrew Morton
2026-04-28 22:55 ` Barry Song
2026-04-25 14:25 ` Zi Yan
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