Re: [PATCH mm-new v8 4/4] mm: khugepaged: skip lazy-free folios

[Vernon Yang]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 12:41:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:55:45 +0800 Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew, could you please squash the following fix into this patch?
>
> yup.
>
> > also remove "if" in the changelog above.
>
> So you want it like this?

Yes, we should remove the "if"; otherwise, it’s misleading.

> : All folios in VM_DROPPABLE are lazyfree, Collapsing maintains that
> : property, so we can just collapse and memory pressure in the future will
> : free it up.  In contrast, collapsing in !VM_DROPPABLE does not maintain
> : that property, the collapsed folio will not be lazyfree and memory
> : pressure in the future will not be able to free it up.
>

LGTM, Thanks!

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Cheers,
Vernon