Re: [PATCH] mm: Mark idle page tracking as BROKEN

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On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 01:07:14AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> In discussion with other MM developers around how idle page tracking
> should be fixed for transparent huge pages, several expressed the opinion
> that it should be removed as it is inefficient at accomplishing the
> job that it is supposed to, and we have better mechanisms (eg uffd) for
> accomplishing the same goals these days.
> 
> Mark the feature as BROKEN for now and we can remove it entirely in a
> few months if nobody complains.  It is not enabled by Android, ChromeOS,
> Debian, Fedora or SUSE.  Red Hat enabled it with RHEL-8.1 and UEK followed
> suit, but I have been unable to find why RHEL enabled it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov




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