Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 30 août 2023 12:02:20 +0300, a ecrit: > Hello, > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 2:16 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> > wrote: > > Just to make sure, may your work be affected by this? > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2017-10/msg00011.html > > Yes, I learned about that patch just after having sent mine. > > > We had a patch in Debian that was disabling the coalescing because it > > could potentially coalesce areas not to be swappable (such as IDE write > > buffers) with swappable areas. > > Not that I have any idea how IDE drivers work, but that patch sounds > rather pointless, since that very 'if' condition already checks for > the vm_entry being wired (= not swappable), and doesn't coalesce in > that case. Also, according to [0], that patch fixed nothing at the > time. So it should be safe to just drop it, which I see you have > already done.
Ok, good :) Thanks, Samuel
