Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v15 05/13] mm/khugepaged: generalize collapse_huge_page for mTHP collapse

[Randy Dunlap]

On 3/17/26 9:51 AM, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 08:24:27PM -0700, Nico Pache wrote:
>> Pass an order and offset to collapse_huge_page to support collapsing anon
>> memory to arbitrary orders within a PMD. order indicates what mTHP size we
>> are attempting to collapse to, and offset indicates were in the PMD to
>> start the collapse attempt.
>>
>> For non-PMD collapse we must leave the anon VMA write locked until after
>> we collapse the mTHP-- in the PMD case all the pages are isolated, but in
> The '--' seems weird here 🙂 maybe meant to be ' - '?

"--" is common typewriter(!) style for "dash".
Single "-" is a hyphen.

-- 
~Randy