Re: [PATCH RFC 04/24] mm: gup: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:24:55AM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:57:02PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > This is the gup counterpart of the change that allows the VM_FAULT_RETRY
> > to happen for more than once.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So it would be nice to add a comment in the code and in the commit message
> about possible fault starvation (mostly due to previous patch changes) as
> if some one experience that and try to bisect it might overlook the commit.
> 
> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jerome, can I still keep this r-b if I'm going to fix the starvation
issue you mentioned in previous patch about lock page?

Regards,

-- 
Peter Xu




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