Re: [PATCH v5 00/18] mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs

"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-rt-devel,org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
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On 7/10/26 10:36, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 at 09:30, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:47:32 +0200 "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > On 7/3/26 14:31, Brendan Jackman wrote:
>> > > Based on mm-new.
>> >
>> > Seems ready for mm-new to me. I suspect most further non-trivial page
>> > allocator work will conflict, so better have it in mm to be based upon.
>>
>> OK, thanks, added.
>>
>> I also added some little notes to track Zi Yan's comments.
> 
> Thank Andrew. In this instance, what's the best way to send updates, I
> guess now they're in mm-new it's best to just send them as fixups for
> you to squash? In reply to the thread?
> 
>> Sashiko had things to say, mainly pre-existing things.
>>
>>         https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]
>>
>> the xpc_create_gru_mq_uv() issues look like facepalms.
> 
> Oh actually I didn't see the point about the alloc_pages_nolock()
> comment before. Other than that, yeah all of those comments have been
> discussed during the reviews, or are brokenness in totally unrelated
> code.
> 
> There is this where we should probably make a decision (also a
> pre-existing issue but this time in mm/page_alloc.c):
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

I think we can fix that in a follow-up patch. Tag it with Fixes: and stable
and see what happens. We shouldn't have to rearrange everything for small
fixes first just if it's just about !SMP.
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