From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:08:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250611160804.89bc8b8cb570101e51b522e4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250611120654.545963-1-david@redhat.com>
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:06:51 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> While working on improving vm_normal_page() and friends, I stumbled
> over this issues: refcounted "normal" pages must not be marked
> using pmd_special() / pud_special().
Why is this?
>
> ...
>
> I spent too much time trying to get the ndctl tests mentioned by Dan
> running (.config tweaks, memmap= setup, ... ), without getting them to
> pass even without these patches. Some SKIP, some FAIL, some sometimes
> suddenly SKIP on first invocation, ... instructions unclear or the tests
> are shaky. This is how far I got:
I won't include this in the [0/N] - it doesn't seem helpful for future
readers of the patchset.
I'll give the patchset a run in mm-new, but it feels like some more
baking is needed?
The [1/N] has cc:stable but there's nothing in there to explain this
decision. How does the issues affect userspace?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-11 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-11 12:06 David Hildenbrand
2025-06-11 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/huge_memory: don't ignore queried cachemode in vmf_insert_pfn_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 1:56 ` Alistair Popple
2025-06-12 6:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 4:34 ` Dan Williams
2025-06-12 6:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 15:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-12 15:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 15:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-12 16:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 17:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-06-11 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/huge_memory: don't mark refcounted folios special in vmf_insert_folio_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 2:17 ` Alistair Popple
2025-06-12 7:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 4:36 ` Dan Williams
2025-06-12 16:10 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-13 7:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 18:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-06-11 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/huge_memory: don't mark refcounted folios special in vmf_insert_folio_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 4:40 ` Dan Williams
2025-06-12 16:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-12 17:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 17:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-12 17:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 18:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-06-11 23:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2025-06-12 7:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 2:26 ` Alistair Popple
2025-06-12 4:20 ` Dan Williams
2025-06-12 7:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 8:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 16:56 ` Marc Herbert
2025-06-12 16:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-06-12 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-12 16:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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