Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: vmalloc: Switch to find_unlink_vmap_area() in vm_unmap_ram()

From: Uladzislau Rezki
Date: Sat Dec 31 2022 - 04:17:55 EST


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 03:17:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:47:43 +0100 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [2]
> > commit 8a85ea97b35924ee39d51e00ecb3f6d07f748a36
> > Author: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed Dec 21 18:44:53 2022 +0100
> >
> > mm: vmalloc: switch to find_unlink_vmap_area() in vm_unmap_ram()
> >
> > [3]
> > commit a7c84c673c71cdfad20fe25e5d2051ed229859f7
> > Author: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed Dec 21 18:44:52 2022 +0100
> >
> > mm: vmalloc: avoid calling __find_vmap_area() twise in __vunmap()
> > <snip>
> >
> > It would be good if you could fold [2] into [3] making it as one
> > patch. The problem is that, if we leave it as it is, the bisection
> > mechanism would consider [3] as a buggy patch, because it is not
> > fully accomplished and depends on [2].
> >
> > Is that OK for you, i mean to squash on your own?
>
> I did that. I updated the "mm: vmalloc: avoid calling
> __find_vmap_area() twice in __vunmap()" accordingly, thanks.
>
At least bisection part will not detect anything wrong now.

Happy New Year and thank you!

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Uladzislau Rezki