[LTP] [PATCH 1/2] mem: ksm: fix volatile page false positive

Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com
Wed Sep 13 15:47:27 CEST 2017


Hello Cyril,

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:58:27PM +0200, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * The current scan is already in progress so we wouldn't
> > +	 * guarantee to call get_user_pages() on every existing
> > +	 * rmap_item if we only waited the remaining part of the
> > +	 * current scan.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * The actual merging happens after the unstable tree has been
> > +	 * built so we need to wait at least two full scans to
> > +	 * guarantee merging, so wait full_scans to increment by 3 so
> > +	 * at least two full scans will run.
> > +	 */
> 
> I've took a liberty in rewording this comment a bit and pushed the
> patchset, thanks.

Perfect, thanks!
Andrea


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