Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm/hugetlb: Simplify hugetlb unmap

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On Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:19 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For hugetlb like THP (and unlike regular page), we do tlb flush after
> dropping ptl. Because of the above, we don't need to track force_flush
> like we do now. Instead we can simply call tlb_remove_page() which
> will do the flush if needed.
> 
> No functionality change in this patch.

This all looks fairly non-horrifying.  Will a non-RFC version be
forthcoming?
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