On 2022/3/15 7:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:59:40 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2022/3/14 10:50, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Many thanks for your explanation. (I get this commit id from linux-next tree:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git)
>> So I should remember always to get the commit id from mainline.
>
> It's likely that this commit ID will be the same once Matthew's patch
> goes into mainline.
>
> But this is why we include the patch title ("mm/truncate: Inline ...")
> when identifying commits. Sometimes stuff happens...
I remember I used the stale commit id once in my past patch. I made
this mistake again. Sorry about it. :(
> .
>
