[PATCH V7 0/4] mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA region

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Feb 27 22:29:59 AEDT 2019


"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> [patch 1/4]: OK.  I guess.  Was this worth consuming our last PF_ flag?
>
> That was done based on request from Andrea and it also helps in avoiding
> allocating pages from CMA region where we know we are anyway going to
> migrate them out. So yes, this helps. 
>
>> [patch 2/4]: unreviewed
>> [patch 3/4]: unreviewed, mpe still unhappy, I expect?
>
> I did reply to that email. I guess mpe is ok with that?

It would be nice to fold your explanation about DAX into the change log,
so it's there for people to see.

And I think my comment about initialising ret still stands.

cheers


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