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Date:   Fri, 7 Jul 2023 12:41:16 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: fix a race between vmemmap pmd
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On Fri,  7 Jul 2023 11:38:59 +0800 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:

> And inline __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd()
> since it only has one user.

"open code" would be a better term than "inline" in this situation.

If we are to offer this change to -stable then it would be better to do
the open-coding of __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd() in a separate, later
patch.