Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: 9328/1: mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 12:23:01PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 12:20 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:03:50AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > From: Wang Kefeng <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> > >
> > > Attempt VMA lock-based page fault handling first, and fall back to the
> > > existing mmap_lock-based handling if that fails, the ebizzy benchmark
> > > shows 25% improvement on qemu with 2 cpus.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> > > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/Kconfig    |  1 +
> > >  arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >
> > No git id?
> >
> > What kernel branch(s) does this go to?
> >
> > confused,
> 
> Sorry, I used the command from your earlier email about the merge conflict:
> git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to
> '2024021921-bleak-sputter-5ecf@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.7.y'
> HEAD^..
> but it didn't send both patches, so I formatted the patches I wanted
> to send and sent it with the same command replacing "HEAD^.." with
> "*.patch". What should I have done instead?

You forgot the "git cherry-pick -x " portion of the instructions :(


And the subject prefix didn't work here, right?

thanks,

greg k-h