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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset() consistent and document behaviour
On Wed 26-07-17 14:33:57, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 26-07-17 13:11:46, Punit Agrawal wrote:
[...]
> > I've been running tests from mce-test suite and libhugetlbfs for similar
> > changes we did on arm64. There could be assumptions that were not
> > exercised but I'm not sure how to check for all the possible usages.
> >
> > Do you have any other suggestions that can help improve confidence in
> > the patch?
>
> Unfortunatelly I don't. I just know there were many subtle assumptions
> all over the place so I am rather careful to not touch the code unless
> really necessary.
>
> That being said, I am not opposing your patch.

Let me be more specific. I am not opposing your patch but we should
definitely need more reviewers to have a look. I am not seeing any
immediate problems with it but I do not see a large improvements either
(slightly less nightmare doesn't make me sleep all that well ;)). So I
will leave the decisions to others.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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