> On Jul 27, 2026, at 11:25, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:16:54 +0300 Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 07:21:16PM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>>> From: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> deferred_free_pages() open-codes two loops to initialize the pageblock
>>> migratetype for a range of pages.
>>>
>>> Replace them with pageblock_migratetype_init_range() to remove the
>>> duplication and make the code clearer (Note that deferred_free_pages() may
>>> be called from atomic context).
>>>
>>> Link:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
>>> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
>>> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
>>> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>> This patch is taken from Muchun's series [0]. The patch as of today is
>>> in mm-unstable.
>>
>> @Andrew,
>>
>> It looks like it'll take some time for this patch to get into mm-stable so
>> we can't base this work on a branch in the mm tree :(
>
> I didn't know anyone was using mm-stable :(
>
> Series is adequately reviewed and is near head-of-queue so I can move
> it into mm-stable a few days hence if that helps?
>
>> I'd like to expose the KHO scratch extension to linux-next ASAP so I'm
>> inclined to take this patch as a part of this series and live for a while
>> with a duplicated commit in linux-next. Once this patch would be in
>> mm-stable we can rebase kho-scratch work on top of mm-stable and hopefully
>> there will be enough time for it to live in linux-next so that Linus won't
>> get angry at us :)
>>
>> How does that sound to you?
>
> That's fine - let me know what you choose to do and I'll adapt to it.
>
> An unknown (to me) is whether Muchun's series "mm: Refactor bootmem
> gigantic hugepage allocation, v4" still works with this patch removed.
> Everything
> applies OK for what that's worth.
Hi Andrew,
I'd like to confirm that this is a completely independent cleanup patch,
so it can be merged on its own.
Thanks.
