Andrew Morton wrote on Wed, Mar 06, 2019: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 23:48:03 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 3/3 is actually waiting for your decision, see > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190212063643.GL15609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > I pity anyone who tried to understand this code by reading this code. > Can we please get some careful commentary in there explaining what is > going on, and why things are thus? > > I guess the [3/3] change makes sense, although it's unclear whether > anyone really needs it? 5.0 was released with 574823bfab8 ("Change > mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages") so we'll > have a release cycle to somewhat determine how much impact 574823bfab8 > has on users. How about I queue up [3/3] and we reevaluate its > desirability in a couple of months? FWIW, 574823bfab8 has been reverted in 30bac164aca750, included in 5.0-rc4, so the controversial change has only been there from 5.0-rc1 to 5.0-rc3 -- Dominique
