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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 12/24] mm/migrate: Pass vm_fault pointer to
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote:

> migrate_misplaced_page() is only called during the page fault handling so
> it's better to pass the pointer to the struct vm_fault instead of the vma.
> 
> This way during the speculative page fault path the saved vma->vm_flags
> could be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>