[PATCH v3 08/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/thp: Use page table depost/withdraw with THP

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 01/09/2020 à 09:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
> On 9/1/20 12:20 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 01/09/2020 à 08:25, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
>>> On 9/1/20 8:52 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is a checkpatch.pl warning here.
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 
>>>> chars per line)
>>>> #7:
>>>> Architectures like ppc64 use deposited page table while updating the 
>>>> huge pte
>>>>
>>>> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 40 lines checked
>>>>
>>>
>>> I will ignore all these, because they are not really important IMHO.
>>>
>>
>> When doing a git log in a 80 chars terminal window, having wrapping 
>> lines is not really convenient. It should be easy to avoid it.
>>
> 
> We have been ignoring that for a long time  isn't it?
> 
> For example ppc64 checkpatch already had
> --max-line-length=90
> 
> 
> There was also recent discussion whether 80 character limit is valid any 
> more. But I do keep it restricted to 80 character where ever it is 
> easy/make sense.
> 

Here we are not talking about the code, but the commit log.

As far as I know, the discussions about 80 character lines, 90 lines in 
powerpc etc ... is for the code.

We still aim at keeping lines not longer than 75 chars in the commit log.

Christophe

Christophe