Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/vmscan: add a comment about MADV_FREE pages check in folio_check_dirty_writeback

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 23:15:28 EST


On 2022/4/11 22:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:34:52PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> The MADV_FREE pages check in folio_check_dirty_writeback is a bit hard to
>> follow. Add a comment to make the code clear.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>> index c77d5052f230..4a76be47bed1 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -1436,6 +1436,9 @@ static void folio_check_dirty_writeback(struct folio *folio,
>> /*
>> * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
>> * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them
>
> While you touch this please add a period at the end of the above
> sentence.

Will do.

>
> Otherwise looks good:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Many thanks for review!

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