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b=OsUaZ3qPlL1jbAyzayrQRb+dyjgqQoq+2mYizaMceSAnuP7GoL81jreSO0O8hQqqs oUGG8RZ1flCtXeCi1+u3mY/K9j/e07C/JUQbqed6cWiStrOSR7if7Gu2v1Q3tkQDtY BM8YfUCXu/AZlOAsG2YvvQ3nTpBw9Bomh7tBFaoLsBAFZY/QngBoZ+uSjhPN9VytDF NzPxhvTzH7vHs7ZTE3ngtfhM6Msp/IkSdUQXHPCyJgUhKnFEc6j0vfmgOHvxujCulB idtoLFfAh9iLJZG2k5xbmeA0pKooJ5ULDQFySMkGdQ6VjMAC/y7LqX3fo1rSKC7xI/ M0PZ1i+83pkcA== From: SeongJae Park To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: SeongJae Park , "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Nico Pache , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, liam@infradead.org, mhocko@suse.com, rppt@kernel.org, vbabka@suse.cz, willy@infradead.org Subject: Re: Process (was Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes-unstable v18 00/14] khugepaged: add mTHP) collapse support Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20260606000142.88128-1-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <2ca2c36d-318a-4668-bce9-3a0387135904@kernel.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 86DE014000B X-Stat-Signature: 4oj6izijsefzx9cydbnx9rhbni6m3qte X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1780704107-895088 X-HE-Meta: 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 0bu0ml2U L9xptMCLI9tlUmTUF3NydpzM3r4PYKzdxfP3/ymOIz+yQu2Vp1fdxNdAI/BFmJ6ESl78roPboYV+JMqR2iBKLfFjtnsLEvuA1eAtrwSza+NZH78CD8YjV17BMoBkG2UsH5IDARkOBiGMgc9lWZmrvDf41dsIiVfjetVgUYP5sHdfD868rl06d5/CawWlKM9rYZ7pqLeZY5Z0HZXe3Y+34vtBe8e/ilGRZK9QRn8QU9cSydT7pJStYp+rjxDUXvUqXmugM Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:24:25 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > On 6/3/26 03:48, SeongJae Park wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:16:27 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > > > >> On 6/2/26 15:08, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote: [...] > I guess, as a first step, we'll document something similar to what TIP documents > in that regard. Sounds like a good plan :) [...] > I'm sure we'll figure out how bad one approach or the other is as we move > forward, we can always adjust that. Conflicts will haunt us :) > > But I assume, independent of what we document, we will always have people that > submit to arbitrary trees, and it will be out job to make sense of it (or ask to > resend). > > Documentation is good, as long as people read it ... Agreed. Nonetheless, even when people don't read it, it helps us typing less, since we can give them a link to the doc instead of repeatedly explaining the details. And thankfully some people do read it when we gie the link. At least a few contribution guides in DAMON maintainer entry document [1] helped me in the way. > > > > > mm-next maintainer's perspective might see many different things, though. I > > will be more than glad to be learn what I'm missing and get enlightened. > > > > Anyway I think both approaches may work, and we can learn from others and > > trying on our own. I will be happy to help when there is something that I can > > help. :) > > That's the right spirit! :) > > We'll discuss this topic in more detail as we move forward! Fully agreed, and appreciate your effort on this! [1] https://origin.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mm/damon/maintainer-profile.html Thanks, SJ [...]