Re: [PATCH 00/10] mm: pagewalk: huge page cleanups and VMA passing

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Hello Dave,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:36:44PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The hugetlbfs and THP support in the walk_page_range() code was
> mostly an afterthought.
> 
> We also _tried_ to have the pagewalk code be concerned only with
> page tables and *NOT* VMAs.  We lost that battle since 80% of
> the page walkers just pass the VMA along anyway.
> 
> This does a few cleanups and adds a new flavor of walker which
> can be stupid^Wsimple and not have to be explicitly taught about
> THP.

What version is this patchset based on?
Recently I comprehensively rewrote page table walker (from the same motivation
as yours) and the patchset is now in linux-mm. I guess most of your patchset
(I've not read them yet) conflict with this patchset.
So could you take a look on it?

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

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