Re: stalled MM patches

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:14:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I'm sitting on a bunch of patches of varying ages which are stuck for
> various reason.  Can people please take a look some time and assist
> with getting them merged, dropped or fixed?
> 
> I'll send them all out in a sec.  I have rough notes (which might be
> obsolete) and additional details can be found by following the Link: in
> the individual patches.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Subject: mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages
> 
>   mhocko had issues with this one.
> 
> Subject: mm/mempolicy: remove redundant check in get_nodes
> Subject: mm/mempolicy: fix the check of nodemask from user
> Subject: mm/mempolicy: add nodes_empty check in SYSC_migrate_pages
> 
>   Three patch series.  Stuck because vbabka wasn't happy with #3.
> 
> Subject: mm: memcontrol: eliminate raw access to stat and event counters
> Subject: mm: memcontrol: implement lruvec stat functions on top of each other
> Subject: mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting
> 
>   Three patch series.  Stuck because #3 caused fengguang-bot to
>   report "BUG: using __this_cpu_xchg() in preemptible"
> 
> Subject: mm/madvise: enable soft offline of HugeTLB pages at PUD level
> 
>   Hoping for Kirill review.  I wanted additional code comments (I
>   think).  mhocko nacked it.

TBH I'd rather give up this one if mhocko feels that there's no point to it.
Rather drop it than risk adding crap in the kernel :).

It is a bit weird though that currently we have the behavior that on some PPC platforms
you can migrate 1G hugepages but on x86_64 you cannot.

../Alex

> 
> Subject: mm: readahead: increase maximum readahead window
> 
>   Darrick said he was going to do some testing.
> 
> Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu.c: do not show VmExe bigger than total executable virtual memory
> 
>   I had some questions, but they were responded to, whcih made my
>   head spin a bit.  I guess I'll push this to Linus but would
>   appreciate additional review.
> 
> Subject: mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl
> 
>   I'm holding this for additional testing.  I guess I'll merge it in
>   4.16-rc1.
> 
> Subject: mm: vmscan: do not pass reclaimed slab to vmpressure
> 
>   mhocko asked for a changelog update
> 
> Subject: mm/page_owner: align with pageblock_nr pages
> 
>   mhocko sounded confused and I don't think that was resolved?
> 
> Subject: mm/vmstat.c: walk the zone in pageblock_nr_pages steps
> 
>   Joonsoo asked for a new changelog.  Various other concerns.
> 
> Subject: mm: add strictlimit knob
> 
>   This is three years old and I don't think we ever saw a convincing
>   case for merging it.  Opinions>

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