The patch titled
Subject: mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix
Date: Fri Nov 29 09:23:51 PM PST 2024
tweak grammer, fit to 80 cols
Cc: gaoxiang17 <gaoxiang17@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1854,11 +1854,12 @@ static bool can_steal_fallback(unsigned
return true;
/*
- * movable pages won't cause permanent fragmentation, so when you alloc small pages,
- * you just need to temporarily steal unmovable or reclaimable pages that are closest
- * to the request size. After a while, memory compact may occur to form large contiguous
- * pages, and the next movable allocation may not need to steal. Unmovable and reclaimable
- * allocation need to actually steal pages.
+ * Movable pages won't cause permanent fragmentation, so when you alloc
+ * small pages, you just need to temporarily steal unmovable or
+ * reclaimable pages that are closest to the request size. After a
+ * while, memory compaction may occur to form large contiguous pages,
+ * and the next movable allocation may not need to steal. Unmovable and
+ * reclaimable allocations need to actually steal pages.
*/
if (order >= pageblock_order / 2 ||
start_mt == MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE ||
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
fs-proc-vmcorec-fix-warning-when-config_mmu=n.patch
mm-mempolicy-fix-migrate_to_node-assuming-there-is-at-least-one-vma-in-a-mm-fix.patch
mm-swap_cgroup-allocate-swap_cgroup-map-using-vcalloc-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix.patch
