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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] mincore() and IOCB_NOWAIT adjustments
Andrew Morton wrote on Wed, Mar 06, 2019:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 23:48:03 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > 3/3 is actually waiting for your decision, see
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190212063643.GL15609@dhcp22.suse.cz/
>
> I pity anyone who tried to understand this code by reading this code.
> Can we please get some careful commentary in there explaining what is
> going on, and why things are thus?
>
> I guess the [3/3] change makes sense, although it's unclear whether
> anyone really needs it? 5.0 was released with 574823bfab8 ("Change
> mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages") so we'll
> have a release cycle to somewhat determine how much impact 574823bfab8
> has on users. How about I queue up [3/3] and we reevaluate its
> desirability in a couple of months?

FWIW,

574823bfab8 has been reverted in 30bac164aca750, included in 5.0-rc4, so
the controversial change has only been there from 5.0-rc1 to 5.0-rc3

--
Dominique

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