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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/3] mm: Add a new page flag PageLayzyFree() for MADV_FREE
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> Am 28.02.2020 um 04:38 schrieb Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>:
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> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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> Now !PageSwapBacked() is used as the flag for the pages freed lazily
> via MADV_FREE. This isn't obvious enough. So Dave suggested to add a
> new page flag for that to improve the code readability.

This patch subject and description is *really* confusing. You‘re adding a helper function, not a page flag. It‘s a fairly easy refactoring.

(Adding new page flags is close to impossible).

Cheers!
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