On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 09:58:49AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> On 2022/3/14 7:41, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 03:46:12PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> >> Since commit 042c4f32323b ("mm/truncate: Inline invalidate_complete_page()
> >
> > This commit ID does not exist in mainline (or in the latest mmotm?),
> > so you can't use it in patch description. Could you update this part?
> >
>
> This commit is in the mmotm but not in mainline yet:
>
> commit 042c4f32323beb28146c658202d3e69899e4f245
> Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat Feb 12 15:27:42 2022 -0500
>
> mm/truncate: Inline invalidate_complete_page() into its one caller
>
> invalidate_inode_page() is the only caller of invalidate_complete_page()
> and inlining it reveals that the first check is unnecessary (because we
> hold the page locked, and we just retrieved the mapping from the page).
> Actually, it does make a difference, in that tail pages no longer fail
> at this check, so it's now possible to remove a tail page from a mapping.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Am I "not" supposed to use this commit id as it's not "stable" now?
No, it's not stable yet. In whatever way you get the above commit (I guess
you get it from https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm), all acked mm-related
patches are sent to Linus by Andrew *by email*, so the eventual commit IDs
should be determined when they are applied to mainline.
Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
